应重视生物信息学等新兴学科在眼科研究中的应用

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

21世纪以来，纵观我国眼科研究，在各方面都取得了长足进展，不少领域已处于国际先进水平。而我国眼科研究与西方发达国家仍存在差距，缺乏原始创新及学科交叉的深入研究是原因之一。要进一步提高我国眼科研究水平，缩小与发达国家的差距，需要从事眼科研究的工作者加快引进、消化、吸收并融合其他学科的研究成果和新技术，多出原始创新性的研究。在“后基因组”时代，单一学科很难解决如此复杂的生命科学问题，多学科交叉与融合为眼科研究带来了契机，特别是最近出现的信息生物学（bioinformatics）和系统生物学（systems biology）等新兴学科，将有助于推动眼科科研思维方式和研究手段的变革。

Mter 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.