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ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2010

Computational toxicology: realizing the promise of the toxicity testing in the 21st century.

Ivan Rusyn, George P Daston

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Article in Environmental health perspectives, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. Predicting the future: opportunities and challenges for the chemical industry to apply 21st-century toxicity testing.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2015
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  20. Accelerating the development of 21st-century toxicology: outcome of a Human Toxicology Project Consortium workshop.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2012
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ivan RusynDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7431, USA. iir@unc.edu
George P Daston

Funding

UNC-CH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH &SUSCEPTIBILITYP30ES010126 · NIEHS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Stephanie Engel · 2001 to 2026
$36.3M
NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES010126
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe National Academies' Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions held a meeting (21-22 September 2009 in Washington, DC) titled "Computational Toxicology: From Data to Analyses to Applications." This commentary reflects on the presentations and roundtable discussions from the meeting that were designed to review the state of the art in the field and the practical applications of the new science and to provide focus to the field.

objectivesThe meeting considered two topics: the emerging data streams amenable to computational modeling and data mining, and the emerging data analysis and modeling tools. DISCUSSION: Computational toxicology is a subdiscipline of toxicology that aims to use the mathematical, statistical, modeling, and computer science tools to better understand the mechanisms through which a given chemical induces harm and, ultimately, to be able to predict adverse effects of the toxicants on human health and/or the environment. The participants stressed the importance of computational toxicology to the future of environmental health sciences and regulatory decisions in public health; however, many challenges remain to be addressed before the findings from high-throughput screens and in silico models may be considered sufficiently robust and informative.

conclusionsMany scientists, regulators, and the general public believe that new and better ways to assess human toxicity are now needed, and technological breakthroughs are empowering the field of toxicity assessment. Even though the application of computational toxicology to environmental health decisions requires additional efforts, the merger of the power of computers with biological information is poised to deliver new tools and knowledge.

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Computational BiologyComputer SimulationData MiningModels, MolecularQuantitative Structure-Activity RelationshipSoftwareToxicity TestsToxicology

Identifiers

PMID20483702
PMCPMC2920091

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