Web tools for predictive toxicology model building

Expert Opinion on Drug Metabolism and Toxicology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 791-801

  Jeliazkova, Nina ^a  

^a IDEACONSULT LTD   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

model building; predictive toxicology; QSAR; web applications; web services

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATISM; BIOINFORMATICS; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LIBRARY; MACHINE LEARNING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PKA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; TAUTOMER; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKFLOW;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TOXICITY TESTS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84862523209     PISSN: 17425255     EISSN: 17447607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17425255.2012.685158     Document Type: Review

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