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ArticleScientific data2023

A benchmark dataset for machine learning in ecotoxicology.

Christoph Schür, Lilian Gasser, Fernando Perez-Cruz, Kristin Schirmer, Marco Baity-Jesi

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Article in Scientific data, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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Christoph Schür *Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland. christoph.schuer@eawag.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5865-980X
Lilian Gasser *Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC), Zürich, Switzerland.
Fernando Perez-CruzSwiss Data Science Center (SDSC), Zürich, Switzerland.
Kristin SchirmerEawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Marco Baity-JesiEawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of machine learning for predicting ecotoxicological outcomes is promising, but underutilized. The curation of data with informative features requires both expertise in machine learning as well as a strong biological and ecotoxicological background, which we consider a barrier of entry for this kind of research. Additionally, model performances can only be compared across studies when the same dataset, cleaning, and splittings were used. Therefore, we provide ADORE, an extensive and well-described dataset on acute aquatic toxicity in three relevant taxonomic groups (fish, crustaceans, and algae). The core dataset describes ecotoxicological experiments and is expanded with phylogenetic and species-specific data on the species as well as chemical properties and molecular representations. Apart from challenging other researchers to try and achieve the best model performances across the whole dataset, we propose specific relevant challenges on subsets of the data and include datasets and splittings corresponding to each of these challenge as well as in-depth characterization and discussion of train-test splitting approaches.

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EcotoxicologyAnimalsFishesMachine LearningPhylogeny

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PMID37853023
PMCPMC10584858

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