1. An Integrated Chemical Environment to Support 21st-Century Toxicology
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Warren Casey, Andy Shapiro, Arpit Tandon, Jason Phillips, Alexander Sedykh, Nicole Kleinstreuer, David Allen, Shannon M. Bell, Stephen Q. Morefield, Catherine S. Sprankle, Ruchir R. Shah, and Elizabeth A. Maull
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0301 basic medicine ,Hazard (logic) ,Internet ,Data collection ,Databases, Factual ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Data Collection ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Brief Communication ,Toxicology ,Set (abstract data type) ,03 medical and health sciences ,Reference data ,030104 developmental biology ,Workflow ,The Internet ,Web resource ,business ,Test data - Abstract
SUMMARY: Access to high-quality reference data is essential for the development, validation, and implementation of in vitro and in silico approaches that reduce and replace the use of animals in toxicity testing. Currently, these data must often be pooled from a variety of disparate sources to efficiently link a set of assay responses and model predictions to an outcome or hazard classification. To provide a central access point for these purposes, the National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods developed the Integrated Chemical Environment (ICE) web resource. The ICE data integrator allows users to retrieve and combine data sets and to develop hypotheses through data exploration. Open-source computational workflows and models will be available for download and application to local data. ICE currently includes curated in vivo test data, reference chemical information, in vitro assay data (including Tox21TM/ToxCast™ high-throughput screening data), and in silico model predictions. Users can query these data collections focusing on end points of interest such as acute systemic toxicity, endocrine disruption, skin sensitization, and many others. ICE is publicly accessible at https://ice.ntp.niehs.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1759.
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- 2017