CERAPP: Collaborative estrogen receptor activity prediction project

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1023-1033

  Mansouri, Kamel ^a,b   Abdelaziz, Ahmed ^c   Rybacka, Aleksandra ^d   Roncaglioni, Alessandra ^e   Tropsha, Alexander ^f   Varnek, Alexandre ^g   Zakharov, Alexey ^h   Worth, Andrew ⁱ   Richard, Ann M ^a   Grulke, Christopher M ^a   Trisciuzzi, Daniela ^j   Fourches, Denis ^f   Horvath, Dragos ^g   Benfenati, Emilio ^e   Muratov, Eugene ^f   Wedebye, Eva Bay ^k   Grisoni, Francesca ^l   Mangiatordi, Giuseppe F ^j   Incisivo, Giuseppina M ^e   Hong, Huixiao ^m   Ng, Hui W ^m   Tetko, Igor V ^c,n   Balabin, Ilya ^o   Kancherla, Jayaram ^a   Shen, Jie ^p   Burton, Julien ⁱ   Nicklaus, Marc ^h   Cassotti, Matteo ^l   Nikolov, Nikolai G ^k   Nicolotti, Orazio ^j   Andersson, Patrik L ^d   Zang, Qingda ^q   Politi, Regina ^f   Beger, Richard D ^r   Todeschini, Roberto ^l   Huang, Ruili ^s   Farag, Sherif ^f   Rosenberg, Sine A ^k   Slavov, Svetoslav ^q   Hu, Xin ^s   Judson, Richard S ^a   more..

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^h NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^k TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^m CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁿ BigChem GmbH   (Germany)

^o LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^p RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FRAGRANCE MATERIALS   (United States)

^q INTEGRATED LABORATORY SYSTEMS   (United States)

^r U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^s NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATEGORICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS MODEL; CONTINUOUS MODEL; DATA BASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXICITY TESTING; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; TOXICITY TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977138622     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1510267     Document Type: Article

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