Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)and acupuncture are ancient medical theories that combine the experience of clinical practice of TCM and acupuncture with ancient Chinese philosophy.Although basic and clinical researches have been carried out to explore the effectiveness and possible mechanisms of TCM and acupuncture treatment

many aspects of TCM and acupuncture in daily patient care still need to be optimized under the framework of TCM and acupuncture.The greatest geneticist Gregor J.Mendel had shown us that great science like Mendel's Law can be developed with a careful planning of a large sample collection

accurate observation

data recording

innovative data analysis and mathematic modeling.Learning from Mendel

TCM and acupuncture can take advantage of bioinformatics in genomic and post-genomic era to advance TCM and acupuncture according to their own theories.In recent years

many new data mining and statistical analysis methods developed with bioinformatics platforms provide tools for scientists to investigate diseases and treatments using less of a reductionism approach and more of a systemic approach.Bioinformatics can provide an effective platform to improve the accuracy of data collection in TCM and acupuncture clinic.It can facilitate large sample collections and provide computational tools for data mining and statistical analysis.It is a systems approach to advance TCM and acupuncture in genomic and post genomic era.