Data Science Institute

Identification of Phytotherapies

Research Project

This project is establishing a first-of-its-kind computerized platform to identify and catalog therapeutic uses of plants. 

IdentificationSpecifically, this project aims to develop a semantically integrated framework for identifying and validating potential phyto-therapies embedded within ethnobotanical and biomedical knowledge sources and thus encourage the conservation of this knowledge and biodiversity.

Research Lead

Funding Sources

NIH/NLM