DeepTox: Toxicity Prediction using Deep Learning
Owner/Developer: Frontiers Media S.A.
| Country: | Switzerland |
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| Languages: | English |
| Url: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fenvs.2015.00080/full |
| Description: |
The Tox21 Data Challenge has been the largest effort of the scientific community to compare computational methods for toxicity prediction. This challenge comprised 12,000 environmental chemicals and drugs which were measured for 12 different toxic effects by specifically designed assays. We participated in this challenge to assess the performance of Deep Learning in computational toxicity prediction. Deep Learning has already revolutionized image processing, speech recognition, and language understanding but has not yet been applied to computational toxicity. Deep Learning is founded on novel algorithms and architectures for artificial neural networks together with the recent availability of very fast computers and massive datasets. It discovers multiple levels of distributed representations of the input, with higher levels representing more abstract concepts. We hypothesized that the construction of a hierarchy of chemical features gives Deep Learning the edge over other toxicity prediction methods. Furthermore, Deep Learning naturally enables multi-task learning, that is, learning of all toxic effects in one neural network and thereby learning of highly informative chemical features. |
| Category: | Publication |
| Channel: | Website |
| Audience: | Scientists - Regulators - Industry - Researchers - Educators - Students |
| User access: | Open access |
| Updating frequency: | 02 February 2016 |
| Relevance: | Replacement - Reduction |
| Purpose: | Toxicological and safety evaluation - Documentation and information |
| Technology/Tools: | Non-testing methods (in silico) |
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