Predictive toxicology: Modeling chemical induced toxicological response combining circular fingerprints with random forest and support vector machine

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Koutsoukas, Alexios ^a   St Amand, Joseph ^a   Mishra, Meenakshi ^a   Huan, Jun ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheminformatics; Data mining; In silico; Machine learning; Predictive toxicology; Tox21 data challenge 2014; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060335494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00011     Document Type: Article

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