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Main Title ASTER: An Integration of the ACQUIRE Data Base and the QSAR System for Use in Ecological Risk Assessments.
Author Russom, C. L. ; Anderson, E. B. ; Greenwood, B. E. ; Pilli, A. ;
CORP Author Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN. ;Computer Sciences Corp., Duluth, MN.
Publisher c1991
Year Published 1991
Report Number EPA/600/A-92/141;
Stock Number PB92-198217
Additional Subjects Risk assessment ; Aquatic ecosystems ; Hazardous materials ; Pollution regulations ; Water pollution effects ; US EPA ; Aquatic animals ; Aquatic plants ; Chemical compounds ; Toxicity ; Data storage and retrieval ; Physicochemical properties ; Exposure ; Reprints ; ASsessment Tools for the Evaluation of Risk system ; ASTER computer program ; AQUatic toxicity Information REtrieval system ; Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships systems ; AQUIRE data base ; QSAR system
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NTIS  PB92-198217 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals. These assessments are important steps in formulating regulatory decisions. The completion of an ecological risk assessment requires the gathering of ecotoxicological hazard and environmental exposure information. The information is evaluated in the risk characterization section to assist in making the final risk assessment. ASTER (ASsessment Tools for the Evaluation of Risk) was designed by the US EPA Environmental Research Laboratory-Duluth (ERL-D) to assist regulators in producing assessments. ASTER is an integration of the AQUIRE (AQUatic toxicity Information REtrieval system) and QSAR (Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships) systems. AQUIRE is a data base of aquatic toxicity tests and QSAR is comprised of a data base of measured physicochemical properties, and various QSAR models that estimate physicochemical and ecotoxicological endpoints. ASTER will be available to international governmental agencies through the US EPA National Computing Center. (Copyright (c) 1991 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.)