Expert QSAR system for predicting the bioconcentration factor under the REACH regulation

Environmental Research

Volumn 148, Issue , 2016, Pages 507-512

  Grisoni, Francesca ^a,b   Consonni, Viviana ^a,b   Vighi, Marco ^a,c   Villa, Sara ^a   Todeschini, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Milano Chemometric Research Group   (Italy)

^c IMDEA WATER INSTITUTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

BCF; Bioaccumulation; Expert system; QSAR; TGD; VEGA

Indexed keywords

OCTANOL; WATER; DANGEROUS GOODS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; EXPERT SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATIONALIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; CHEMISTRY; DANGEROUS GOODS; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

1-OCTANOL; EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; WATER;

EID: 84966702508     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2016.04.032     Document Type: Article

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