Introduction

Acupuncture Effect Data Visualization Platform is constructed by Institute of Information on Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Based on the literature database of acupuncture effect, it will display acupuncture intervention data (needles, acupuncture manipulation, needle sites, courses of treatment, etc.) and acupuncture effect information (functional score, microscopic function, tissue or cell level, molecular level, etc.) in detail. The database is divided into three modules, including 14,284 articles from 1956 to 2019 in the acupuncture animal experiment module, 11,472 articles from 1956 to 2016 in the acupuncture randomized controlled trial module, and 2,107 articles from 1956 to 2019 in the acupuncture basic clinical experiment module respectively. The platform can support the retrieval and screening of literature, and provide five search portals of disease syndrome, acupoint, effect, therapy, and tissues or organs, so as to accurately screen literature data. At the same time, the platform provides 3 visualization methods, including tree mode, circle mode, and mesh mode, using knowledge network to display the relationship of disease, acupoints, genes, proteins, detection indicators, cell or tissue and other interrelated elements.

At present, these acupuncture clinical and experimental data are scattered in a large amount of literature, and it is difficult to be systematically summarized and analyzed. Therefore, how to provide convenient retrieval for researchers, and effectively utilize these acupuncture effect data is a problem that our group pays close attention to and aim to solve. Acupuncture Effect Data Visualization Platform can help researchers to filter literature, understand research status, and make an experimental plan. It provides standardized data support for in-depth research on the biological mechanism of acupuncture, as well as auxiliary data visualization and literature retrieval tools.