Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief introduction to predictive toxicology / Christoph Helma -- Description and representation of chemicals / Wolfgang Guba -- Computational biology and toxicogenomics / Kathleen Marchal ... {et al.} -- Toxicological information for use in predictive modelig: quality, sources, and databases / Mark T.D. Cronin -- The use of expert systems for toxicology risk prediction / Simon Parsons and Peter McBurney -- Regression- and projection-based approaches in predictive toxicology / Lennart Eriksson, Erik Johansson, and Torbj orn Lundstedt -- Machine learning and data mining / Stefan Kramer and Christoph Helma -- Neural networks and kernel machines for vector and structured data / Paolo Frasconi -- Applications of substructure-based SAR in toxicology / Herbert S. Rosenkranz and Bhavani P. Thampatty -- OncoLogic: a mechanism-based expert system for predicting the carcinogenic potential of chemicals / Yin-Tak Woo and David Y. Lai -- META: an expert system for the prediction of metabolic transformations / Gilles Klopman and Aleksandr Sedykh -- MC4PC - an artificial intelligence approach to the discovery of quantitative structure-toxic activity relationships / Gilles Klopman ... {et al.} -- PASS: prediction of biological activity spectra for substances / Vladimir Poroikov and Dmitri Filimonov -- Iazar: lazy structure-activity relationships for toxicity prediction / Christoph Helma.