[More attention should be paid to the application of newly disciplines such as bioinformatics in the ophthalmic research in China]

Abstract

After giving a broad overview of the ophthalmic research in China, we find that the research in ophthalmology is making good progress and has reached the top level in most fields in the world since the 21(st) century. However, the lack of original and interdisciplinary research is one of the reasons, which leads to the obvious discrepancy between our country and the developed countries. In order to improve the level of the ophthalmic research and narrow the gaps between China and the developed countries, the researchers focused on the ophthalmic research should create more original results through inputting, digesting, absorbing and melting the research results in other disciplinary and new technology. With the era of "omics", the complicated problems in life science can not be solved by the single disciplinary. A turning point will be brought to the ophthalmic research by the interdisciplinary such as bioinformatics and system biology, which will accelerate the change of thinking mode and research methods in ophthalmology.