Siddha System Of Medicine - Incorporating Informatics

The Siddha system of medicine is one of the traditional scientific medical system, has strong roots and unique in nature, reflecting the culture, tradition and heritage of India. Bioinformatics represents an advancement, growing area of science that uses computational approaches to answer biological questions. Siddha informatics is a science at a need of hour, dealing with the application of bioinformatics into siddha medication to provide a scientific platform to the traditional Indian medical system. Recently the biomedical research has shown a transformation from in-vivo to in-silico experimentation, which mainly relies upon bioinformatics. Human Genome Project paved a way to future commercialization of sequence data to develop informatics technology that transforms this data into information which is useful in diagnostic and therapeutic aspects. In this new way of transformation and commercialization the traditional system of medicine like Siddha needs innovation and renovation. Therefore, modern Siddha practitioners need training in Bioinformatics especially Siddha-Informatics is imperative to keep pace with the modern system of medicine. Incoporating Infomatics in Siddha is inevitable for better outcome and future. Comprehensive digitization of siddha system is obligatory for its better outlook.