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Indian traditional and Ayurvedic medicine used to combat the complex diseases from a holistic and integrative point of view has shown efficiency and effectiveness in the treatment of NDs. Bacopa monnieri is a potent Indian medicinal herb used for multiple ailments, but is significantly known as a nootropic or brain tonic and memory enhancer. This annual herb has various active compounds and acts as an alternative and complementary medicine in various countries. However, system-level insights of the molecular mechanism of a multiscale treatment strategy for NDs is still a bottleneck. Considering its prominence, we used cheminformatics and system pharmacological approaches, with the aim to unravel the various molecular mechanisms represented by Bacopa-derived compounds in identifying the active human targets when treating NDs. First, using cheminformatics analysis combined with the drug target mining process, 52 active compounds and their corresponding 780 direct receptors were retrieved and computationally validated. Based on the molecular properties, bioactive scores and comparative analysis with commercially available drugs, novel and active compounds such as asiatic acid (ASTA) and loliolide (LLD) to treat the Alzheimer\u2019s and SCA were identified. According to the interactions among the active compounds, the targets and diseases were further analyzed to decipher the deeper pharmacological actions of the drug. NDs consist of complex regulatory modules that are integrated to dissect the therapeutic effects of compounds derived from Bacopa in various pathological features and their encoding biological processes. All these revealed that Bacopa compounds have several curative activities in regulating the various biological processes of NDs and also pave the way for the treatment of various diseases in modern medicine.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/biom10040536","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,2]],"date-time":"2020-04-02T11:57:14Z","timestamp":1585828634000},"page":"536","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":105,"title":["Bacopa monnieri and Their Bioactive Compounds Inferred Multi-Target Treatment Strategy for Neurological Diseases: A Cheminformatics and System Pharmacology Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0096-338X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rajendran","family":"Jeyasri","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Science Campus, Alagappa University, Karaikudi 630 003, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7294-1625","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pandiyan","family":"Muthuramalingam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Science Campus, Alagappa University, Karaikudi 630 003, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vellaichami","family":"Suba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Science Campus, Alagappa University, Karaikudi 630 003, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7969-4935","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manikandan","family":"Ramesh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biotechnology, Science Campus, Alagappa University, Karaikudi 630 003, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3540-4449","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jen-Tsung","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Ecological ethnobotany: Stumbling toward new practices and paradigms","volume":"16","year":"2000","journal-title":"MASA J."},{"key":"ref_2","unstructured":"(2001). 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