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ArticleScience advances2024

Transformers enable accurate prediction of acute and chronic chemical toxicity in aquatic organisms.

Mikael Gustavsson, Styrbjörn Käll, Patrik Svedberg, Juan S Inda-Diaz, Sverker Molander, Jessica Coria, Thomas Backhaus, Erik Kristiansson

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Mikael GustavssonDepartment of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0635-8321
Styrbjörn KällDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0166-5816
Patrik SvedbergDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-6622-5366
Juan S Inda-DiazDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-3735-8300
Sverker MolanderDivision of Environmental Systems Analysis, Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jessica CoriaDepartment of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-6754-9511
Thomas BackhausDepartment of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-9643-1662
Erik KristianssonDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-8609-2414

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Environmental hazard assessments are reliant on toxicity data that cover multiple organism groups. Generating experimental toxicity data is, however, resource-intensive and time-consuming. Computational methods are fast and cost-efficient alternatives, but the low accuracy and narrow applicability domains have made their adaptation slow. Here, we present a AI-based model for predicting chemical toxicity. The model uses transformers to capture toxicity-specific features directly from the chemical structures and deep neural networks to predict effect concentrations. The model showed high predictive performance for all tested organism groups-algae, aquatic invertebrates and fish-and has, in comparison to commonly used QSAR methods, a larger applicability domain and a considerably lower error. When the model was trained on data with multiple effect concentrations (EC

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