| Computational toxicology approaches at the US Food and Drug Administration. | |
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PMID: 20017581 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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For over a decade, the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has been engaged in the applied research, development, and evaluation of computational toxicology methods used to support the safety evaluation of a diverse set of regulated products. The basis for evaluating computational toxicology methods is multi-factorial, including the potential for increased efficiency, reduction in the numbers of animals used, lower costs, and the need to explore emerging technologies that support the goals of the US FDA's Critical Path Initiative (e.g. to make decision support information available early in the drug review process). The US FDA's efforts have been facilitated by agency-approved data-sharing agreements between government and commercial software developers. This commentary review describes former and current scientific initiatives at the agency, in the area of computational toxicology methods. In particular, toxicology-based QSAR models, ToxML databases and knowledgebases will be addressed. Notably, many of the computational toxicology tools available are commercial products - however, several are emerging as non-commercial products, which are freely-available to the public, and which will facilitate the understanding of how these programs work and avoid the "black box" paradigm. Through productive collaborations, the US FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, have worked together to evaluate, develop and apply these methods to chemical toxicity endpoints of regulatory interest. |
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Authors:
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Chihae Yang; Luis G Valerio; Kirk B Arvidson |
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Type: Journal Article; Review |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Alternatives to laboratory animals : ATLA Volume: 37 ISSN: 0261-1929 ISO Abbreviation: Altern Lab Anim Publication Date: 2009 Nov |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-12-18 Completed Date: 2010-03-25 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8110074 Medline TA: Altern Lab Anim Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 523-31 Citation Subset: IM |
Copyright Information:
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2009 FRAME. |
Affiliation:
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Office of Food Additive Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA. chihae.yang@fda.hhs.gov |
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Computational Biology
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methods* Database Management Systems* Databases, Factual* Humans Knowledge Bases* Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Toxicology / methods* United States United States Food and Drug Administration |
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0/Pharmaceutical Preparations |
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