The Tools for Aquatic Toxicology within the VEGAHUB System
Emilio Benfenati, Anna Lombardo, Viktor Drgan, Marjana Novič, Alberto Manganaro · 2021
VEGA is a platform which is intended to offer to the user a series of tools for the assessment of property value of chemical substances. It includes more than 70 QSAR models for human toxicological, ecotoxicological, environmental, physicochemical, and toxicokinetic properties. Tools for read-across and screening are also provided. Here we will focus on the tools for aquatic toxicity, explaining the perspective adopted in their development, intended to provide to the user not only a prediction, but many pieces of information and features, to increase the reliability of the results, and the explanation. Several tools should be used jointly, to exploit what is offered within the platform. We will describe separate tools and how to use them with all the functionalities.