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Title: The CompTox Chemistry Dashboard: a community data resource for environmental chemistry

Journal Article · · Journal of Cheminformatics
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  1. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Office of Research and Development. National Center for Computational Toxicology
  2. Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Office of Research and Development. National Center for Computational Toxicology; Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); ScitoVation, LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
  4. Oak Ridge Inst. for Science and Education (ORISE), Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)

Despite an abundance of online databases providing access to chemical data, there is increasing demand for highquality, structure-curated, open data to meet the various needs of the environmental sciences and computational toxicology communities. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) web-based CompTox Chemistry Dashboard is addressing these needs by integrating diverse types of relevant domain data through a cheminformatics layer, built upon a database of curated substances linked to chemical structures. These data include physicochemical, environmental fate and transport, exposure, usage, in vivo toxicity, and in vitro bioassay data, surfaced through an integration hub with link-outs to additional EPA data and public domain online resources. Batch searching allows for direct chemical identifer (ID) mapping and downloading of multiple data streams in several diferent formats. This facilitates fast access to available structure, property, toxicity, and bioassay data for collections of chemicals (hundreds to thousands at a time). Advanced search capabilities are available to support, for example, non-targeted analysis and identifcation of chemicals using mass spectrometry. The contents of the chemistry database, presently containing ~ 760,000 substances, are available as public domain data for download. The chemistry content underpinning the Dashboard has been aggregated over the past 15 years by both manual and auto-curation techniques within EPA’s DSSTox project. DSSTox chemical content is subject to strict quality controls to enforce consistency among chemical substance-structure identifers, as well as list curation review to ensure accurate linkages of DSSTox substances to chemical lists and associated data. The Dashboard, publicly launched in April 2016, has expanded considerably in content and user trafc over the past year. It is continuously evolving with the growth of DSSTox into high-interest or data-rich domains of interest to EPA, such as chemicals on the Toxic Substances Control Act listing, while providing the user community with a fexible and dynamic web-based platform for integration, processing, visualization and delivery of data and resources. The Dashboard provides support for a broad array of research and regulatory programs across the worldwide community of toxicologists and environmental scientists.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-06OR23100
OSTI ID:
1627024
Journal Information:
Journal of Cheminformatics, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 1758-2946
Publisher:
Chemistry Central Ltd.Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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