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Convergent Evolution of Medicines
Author(s) -
Kong DeXin,
Li XueJuan,
Zhang HongYu
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
chemmedchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.817
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1860-7187
pISSN - 1860-7179
DOI - 10.1002/cmdc.200800093
Subject(s) - convergent evolution , phenomenon , evolutionary biology , chemical space , traditional medicine , computational biology , biology , phylogenetics , epistemology , drug discovery , medicine , bioinformatics , philosophy , genetics , gene
Applying a biological theory to a medicinal problem . By analyzing the phylogenies of Chinese, Western, and other medicinal systems and probing their chemical space, the phenomenon of convergent evolution has been found to exist within medicines.