Development and Application of Information Technology in Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine
信息技术在中药现代化研究中的应用及发展

In this paper, the application of information technology to the modernization of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is briefly described on the basis of making a general comment on the technologies of multivariate statistical analysis, pattern recognition, knowledge-based engineering, artificial neural network, fuzzy information processing and intelligent intonation integration processing, which are related to information technology, and the ideas and prospects of the application and development of information technology in such areas as the establishment of an innovative system of new TCM drugs and the buiding-up of the platforms of data analysis and the discovery of the laws of TCM are discussed.