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Using online tool (iPrior) for modeling ToxCast™ assays towards prioritization of animal toxicity testing.
Comb. Chem. High Throughput Screen. 18, 420-438 (2015)
The use of long-term animal studies for human and environmental toxicity estimation is more discouraged than ever before. Alternative models for toxicity prediction, including QSAR studies, are gaining more ground. A recent approach is to combine in vitro chemical profiling and in silico chemical descriptors with the knowledge about toxicity pathways to derive a unique signature for toxicity endpoints. In this study we investigate the ToxCast (TM) Phase I data regarding their ability to predict long-term animal toxicity. We investigated thousands of models constructed in an effort to predict 61 toxicity endpoints using multiple descriptor packages and hundreds of in vitro assays. We investigated the use of in vitro assays and biochemical pathways on model performance. We identified 10 toxicity endpoints where biologically derived descriptors from in vitro assays or pathway perturbations improved the model prediction ability. In vivo toxicity endpoints proved generally challenging to model. Few models were possible to readily model with a balanced accuracy (BA) above 0.7. We also constructed in silico models to predict the outcome of 144 in vitro assays. This showed better statistical metrics with 79 out of 144 assays having median balanced accuracy above 0.7. This suggests that the in vitro datasets have a better modelability than in vivo animal toxicities for the given datasets. Moreover, we published an online platform (http://iprior.ochem.eu) that automates large-scale model building and analysis.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Alternative Testing ; Computational Toxicology ; Iprior ; Qsar ; Reach ; Toxcast; Electronegativity Equalization Method; Electrotopological State Indexes; Neural-network; Qsar; Applicability; Descriptors; Prediction; Solubility; Chemicals; Fragment
ISSN (print) / ISBN
1386-2073
e-ISSN
1875-5402
Quellenangaben
Volume: 18,
Issue: 4,
Pages: 420-438
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers
Publishing Place
Sharjah
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Peer reviewed