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Introduction to the US EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard
Citation:
Williams, A. Introduction to the US EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard. American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology (ASCCT) annual meeting Special Training Session, RTP, NC, October 23, 2020. https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.13103549
Impact/Purpose:
Presentation given to the The American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology (ASCCT) annual meeting special session entitled: Hands-on Training: Practical Applications of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in Chemical Safety Assessment: Applying US EPA Tools and Approaches in Practice, October 23, 2020. Chemical safety decisions and management can be hindered by the lack of ready-access to the ever-expanding array of data, tools, and models that are relevant to the analyses. Even though many chemical safety resources are available, it may not be clear how the various sources of information might be combined in targeted, efficient workflows to address their specific questions. The current product, showcases the various databases, datastreams, features and web services within the Chemicals Dashboard to access publicly available information for various decision making workflows. This product provides regulatory scientists, students and researchers with the ability to effectively access and exploit the many different data streams available in the EPA’s CompTox Chemicals Dashboard to support different regulatory purposes and supports current Agency efforts to reduce mammal study requests by 30% by 2025, and completely eliminate all mammal study requests and funding by 2035.
Description:
The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, now in its 10th release, is the primary web application from the US EPA Center for Computational Toxicology & Exposure used to source data associated with ~880,000 chemicals. Physicochemical property and fate and transport data, in vitro high-throughput screening data, in vivo hazard data and experimental and predicted exposure data, are all made available via a web-based interface. Whether searching for single chemicals or for thousands of substances using a batch search integrating multiple rich data streams, the dashboard is a valuable resource for chemists, toxicologists/risk assessors, and regulatory professionals. This presentation will provide an overview of the Dashboard in terms of the different types of data available, the flexible search capabilities, access to real time predictions and a link farm to over fifty other public websites. This abstract does not necessarily reflect U.S. EPA policy.
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DOI: Introduction to the US EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard
WILLIAMS_INTRO_TO_DASHBOARD_NURA_SLIDES_OCT2020_V2.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 7092.399 KB, about PDF)