Benigni R, Battistelli CL, Bossa C, Colafranceschi M, Tcheremenskaia O. Mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and other end points.
Methods Mol Biol 2013;
930:67-98. [PMID:
23086838 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-62703-059-5_4]
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Abstract
Aiming at understanding the structural and physical chemical basis of the biological activity of chemicals, the science of structure-activity relationships has seen dramatic progress in the last decades. Coarse-grain, qualitative approaches (e.g., the structural alerts), and fine-tuned quantitative structure-activity relationship models have been developed and used to predict the toxicological properties of untested chemicals. More recently, a number of approaches and concepts have been developed as support to, and corollary of, the structure-activity methods. These approaches (e.g., chemical relational databases, expert systems, software tools for manipulating the chemical information) have dramatically expanded the reach of the structure-activity work; at present, they are powerful and inescapable tools for computer chemists, toxicologists, and regulators. This chapter, after a general overview of traditional and well-known approaches, gives a detailed presentation of the latter more recent support tools freely available in the public domain.
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