Aquatic Toxicology Databases

Supratik Kar, Jerzy Leszczynski

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Abstract

The environmental risk assessment necessitates the prediction of probable chronic effects of pollutants like industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products (PPCPs), and agrochemicals in aquatic species from the acute toxicity data. The aquatic environment covers three fourth of the total earth surface which makes it one of the most vulnerable among the ecosystems. To identify safer chemical compounds followed by their approval for marketing requires multiple toxicity test data. In many cases, enough data are absent, and in such cases regulatory organizations, industries, and the environmental scientist must rely on computational/in silico modeling followed by toxicity prediction of new and/or untested chemicals. Here comes the importance of the aquatic toxicity databases which are rich sources of toxicity information from toxicity tests with varying duration and aquatic species. The prediction largely depends on the quality of the model which completely relies on the accuracy and precision of the database. Thus, the present book chapter discusses the most frequently studied aquatic toxicity databases and comprehensive information to facilitate their efficient use by experimentalists as well as computational scientists.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChemometrics and Cheminformatics in Aquatic Toxicology
Publisherwiley
Pages513-526
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9781119681397
ISBN (Print)9781119681595
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021

Keywords

  • aquatic toxicity
  • databases
  • ecosystem
  • ecotoxicity
  • modeling

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