ToxCast: Predicting Toxicity Potential Through High-Throughput Bioactivity Profiling

High-Throughput Screening Methods in Toxicity Testing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-31

  Houck, Keith A ^a   Richard, Ann M ^a   Judson, Richard S ^a   Martin, Matthew T ^a   Reif, David M ^a   Shah, Imran ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical prioritization; Computational modeling; Computational toxicology; High throughput screening; In vitro assays

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887236218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118538203.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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