Journal of Cheminformatics

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Collaborative development of predictive toxicology applications

Barry Hardy1*, Nicki Douglas1, Christoph Helma2, Micha Rautenberg2, Nina Jeliazkova3, Vedrin Jeliazkov3, Ivelina Nikolova3, Romualdo Benigni4, Olga Tcheremenskaia4, Stefan Kramer5, Tobias Girschick5, Fabian Buchwald5, Joerg Wicker5, Andreas Karwath6, Martin Gütlein6, Andreas Maunz6, Haralambos Sarimveis7, Georgia Melagraki7, Antreas Afantitis7, Pantelis Sopasakis7, David Gallagher8, Vladimir Poroikov9, Dmitry Filimonov9, Alexey Zakharov9, Alexey Lagunin9, Tatyana Gloriozova9, Sergey Novikov9, Natalia Skvortsova9, Dmitry Druzhilovsky9, Sunil Chawla10, Indira Ghosh11, Surajit Ray11, Hitesh Patel11 and Sylvia Escher12

Author Affiliations

1 Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg 14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland

2 In silico Toxicology, Altkircher Str. 4 CH-4052 Basel, Switzerland

3 Ideaconsult Ltd, A. Kanchev 4, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria

4 Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Environment and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy

5 Technical University of Munich, Technische Universität München, Arcisstr. 21, 80333 München, Germany

6 Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, 79110 Freiburg i.Br., Germany

7 National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering, Heroon Polytechneiou 9, 15780, Zographou, Athens, Greece

8 David Gallagher, Congresbury, Somerset, UK

9 Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, 119121 Moscow, Russia

10 Seascape Learning, 271 Double Story, New Rajinder Ngr., New Delhi 110060, India

11 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110067, India

12 Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology & Experimental Medicine, Nikolai-Fuchs-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany

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Journal of Cheminformatics 2010, 2:7 doi:10.1186/1758-2946-2-7

Published: 31 August 2010

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Definition of Ontology. Description of ontology and vocabulary definitions.

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User Requirements by User Type. User requirements for several different kinds of OpenTox user are described.

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Interfaces and REST services. Description of approach to OpenTox interfaces and REpresentational State Transfer (REST) web service architecture.

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Data Schema. Descriptions of OECD-HT and ToxML data schemas of relevance to OpenTox and the mapping of data resources to the schema.

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OpenTox Algorithm Template. The fields of the OpenTox description table for the algorithm template are described.

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Initial Implemented OpenTox Algorithms. Descriptions of initial implemented OpenTox Algorithms for descriptor calculation, classification and regression, clustering and feature selection.

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Validation Use Case Examples. Description of three example validation Use Cases for application to predictive toxicology models.

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Validation Interfaces and Services. Description of API for OpenTox Validation services.

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Model Validation Use Case. Description of Model Validation Use Case execution by OpenTox Web Services.

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Information included in OpenTox Reports. Description of Information included in OpenTox Reports.

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OpenTox Reporting API and Supported Templates. Description of reporting formats supported by OpenTox.

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OpenTox Data Infrastructure. Description of data resources included in initial OpenTox Data Infrastructure.

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Graphical Interface Description of ToxPredict Application Steps. Description of graphical user interface interactions for steps involved in execution of ToxPredict Application.

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Graphical Interface Description of ToxCreate Application Steps. Description of graphical user interface interactions for steps involved in execution of ToxCreate Application.

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