Automating Predictive Toxicology Using ComptoxAI

Chem Res Toxicol. 2022 Aug 15;35(8):1370-1382. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.2c00074. Epub 2022 Jul 12.

Abstract

ComptoxAI is a new data infrastructure for computational and artificial intelligence research in predictive toxicology. Here, we describe and showcase ComptoxAI's graph-structured knowledge base in the context of three real-world use-cases, demonstrating that it can rapidly answer complex questions about toxicology that are infeasible using previous technologies and data resources. These use-cases each demonstrate a tool for information retrieval from the knowledge base being used to solve a specific task: The "shortest path" module is used to identify mechanistic links between perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) exposure and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; the "expand network" module identifies communities that are linked to dioxin toxicity; and the quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) dataset generator predicts pregnane X receptor agonism in a set of 4,021 pesticide ingredients. The contents of ComptoxAI's source data are rigorously aggregated from a diverse array of public third-party databases, and ComptoxAI is designed as a free, public, and open-source toolkit to enable diverse classes of users including biomedical researchers, public health and regulatory officials, and the general public to predict toxicology of unknowns and modes of action.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Biology*
  • Databases, Factual
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Toxicology*