Structural alerts (SAs) are essential to identify chemicals for toxicity evaluation and health risk assessment. We constructed a novel SMILES split-based deep learning model (SSDL) that was trained and verified with 5850 chemicals from the ISSSTY dat...
With the aim of helping to set safe exposure limits for the general population, various techniques have been implemented to conduct risk assessments for chemicals and other environmental stressors; however, none of these tools facilitate the identifi...
Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP
Aug 25, 2023
The Ames assay is required by the regulatory agencies worldwide to assess the mutagenic potential risk of consumer products. As well as this in vitro assay, in silico approaches have been widely used to predict Ames test results as outlined in the In...
The Ames test is a gold standard mutagenicity assay that utilizes various strains with and without S9 fraction to provide insights into the mechanisms by which a chemical can mutate DNA. Multitask deep learning is an ideal framework for developing Q...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Sep 6, 2022
The Ames mutagenicity test constitutes the most frequently used assay to estimate the mutagenic potential of drug candidates. While this test employs experimental results using various strains of , the vast majority of the published in silico models ...
Journal of molecular graphics & modelling
Sep 5, 2021
In modern drug discovery, detection of a compound's potential mutagenicity is crucial. However, the traditional method of mutagenicity detection using the Ames test is costly and time consuming as the compounds need to be synthesised and then tested ...
The in vitro micronucleus assay is a globally significant method for DNA damage quantification used for regulatory compound safety testing in addition to inter-individual monitoring of environmental, lifestyle and occupational factors. However, it re...
Deep neural networks are effective in learning directly from low-level encoded data without the need of feature extraction. This paper shows how QSAR models can be constructed from 2D molecular graphs without computing chemical descriptors. Two graph...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Apr 24, 2021
We are exposed to various chemical compounds present in the environment, cosmetics, and drugs almost every day. Mutagenicity is a valuable property that plays a significant role in establishing a chemical compound's safety. Exposure and handling of m...
Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences
Jan 27, 2021
An important task in the early stage of drug discovery is the identification of mutagenic compounds. Mutagenicity prediction models that can interpret relationships between toxicological endpoints and compound structures are especially favorable. In ...
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