The success of the OECD QSAR Toolbox is largely due to the donation of tools and databases by numerous stakeholders. While several profilers and databases have been generated as part of the development of the Toolbox, many have been donated as outlined in the table below (Version 2.1).
Donor |
Description of tool or database |
Reference / Further information |
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)
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Aquatic toxicity classification by ECOSAR (Profiler) This profiler classifies chemicals according to structure into chemical classes for which structure activity relationships have been developed for aquatic toxicity. |
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US-EPA |
Aquatic US-EPA ECOTOX (Database) ECOTOX is a comprehensive database, which provides information on adverse effects of single chemical stressors to ecologically relevant aquatic species. |
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US-EPA |
Terrestrial US-EPA ECOTOX (Database) ECOTOX is a comprehensive database, which provides information on adverse effects of single chemical stressors to ecologically relevant terrestrial species. |
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US-EPA |
Biota-Sediment Accummulation Factor(Database) BSAF is a dataset of approximately 20000 biota-sediment accumulation factors. |
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US-EPA |
Phys-Chem EPISUITE (Database) This database includes experimental results on physical chemical properties as accessed from EPISUITE. This is an extract from the PHYSROP database maintained at Syracuse Research Corporation. |
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US-EPA |
ToxRefDB (Database) This database contains information on chronic developmental and reproductive toxicity studies on cancer of more than 300 pesticides. |
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US-EPA |
Bioaccumulation-metabolism alerts (Profiler) This is a set of structural fragments in the BCF-BAD model in EPISuite version 4.0. |
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US-EPA |
Bioaccumulation-metabolism half-lives (Profiler) This profiler groups the chemicals into categories of biotransformation rates: very slow, slow, moderate, fast, very fast. |
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US-EPA |
Biodegradation fragments (BioWIN MITI) (Profiler) This is the BIOWIN Biodegradability categorisation scheme based on the structural fragments used by the MITI Biodegradation Probability Models. |
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US-EPA |
Organic functional groups (US-EPA) (Profiler) This contains 645 structural fragments and correction factors used in the enhanced Organic Functional Groups derived from the KOWWIN fragment library of the EPISuite program. |
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US-EPA |
US-EPA New Chemical categories (Profiler) The rules coded in the US-EPA New Chemical Program profiler reproduces the original categories cited in the document "TSCA New Chemicals Program (NCP)/Chemical Categories". |
LINK to the document |
US-EPA |
ECOSAR (QSAR) The Ecological Structure Activity Relationships (ECOSAR) is a QSAR model to estimate a chemical's acute and chronic toxicity to aquatic organisms. |
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Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Italy
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Mutagenicity/Carcinogenicity alerts by Benigni/Bossa (Profiler) This rulebase for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity was developed as a module (plug-in) to the Toxtree software. The structural alerts (SAs) from the rulebase have been included as a profiler in the Toolbox. |
Toxtree software: LINK
Details on the SAs of |
Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Italy |
Micronucleus alerts by Benigni/Bossa (Profiler) This profiler based on the ToxMic rulebase of the software Toxtree provides a list of 35 structural alerts for a preliminary screening of potentially in vivo mutagens. |
Toxtree software: LINK
Details on the SAs of |
Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Italy |
Carcinogenicity Mutagenicity ISSCAN (Database) This database includes experimental results for genotoxicity and carcinogenicity. |
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European Commission
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Acute aquatic toxicity classification by Verhaar (Profiler) This classification scheme for an acute toxicity to fish defines classes of inert, less inert, reactive and specifically-acting chemicals. It was developed as a module for the Toxtree software and included as a profiler in the Toolbox. |
Toxtree software: LINK |
European Commission |
Toxic hazard classification by Cramer (Profiler) This classification scheme (tree) is for structuring chemicals in order to make an estimation of a Threshold of Toxicological Concern (TTC). It was developed as a module for the Toxtree software and included as a profiler in the Toolbox. |
Toxtree software: LINK |
Environment Canada
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Bioaccumulation Canada (Database) This database includes experimental results on bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms. |
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Environment Canada |
kM Database A database of measured laboratory bioconcentration factors and total elimination rate constants for fish. |
Arnot et al., Environ Toxicol Chem, 27, pp 2263-2270 (2009) |
Danish Environmental Protection Agency
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Danish EPA Database This database includes estimation results for numerous properties and effects based on QSAR models. |
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RIVM, the Netherlands
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Skin Irritation (Database) This database includes Primary Skin Irritation Indices from skin irritation test from several sources. |
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Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan
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Aquatic Japan MoE (Database) This database includes experimental results on aquatic toxicity based on tests performed within the Japanese Existing Chemicals Programme. |
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Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
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Toxicity Japan MHLW (Database) This database includes experimental results from single dose toxicity tests and mutagenicity tests performed under the Japanese Existing Chemicals Programme. |
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European Centre for Ecotoxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC)
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Aquatic ECETOC (Database) This database includes experimental results for aquatic toxicity. |
ECETOC 2003. Aquatic Hazard Assessment II, Technical ReportNo. 91. ISSN-0773-8072-91 |
European Centre for Ecotoxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) |
Eye Irritation ECETOC (Database) This database includes experimental results on eye irritation. |
ECETOC 1992. ISSN-0773-8072-48(2) |
European Centre for Ecotoxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC) |
Skin Sensitisation ECETOC (Database) This database includes experimental results on skin and respirators sensitisation. |
ECETOC 1999. ISSN-0773-8072-77 |
European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
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Bioaccumulation fish CEFIC-LRI (Database) This database includes experimental results on bioaccumulation (BCF values) in fish. |
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Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, Germany
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RepDose Fraunhofer ITEM (Database) This database contains repeated dose toxicity studies ranging from subacute to chronic exposure that have been conducted with rodents. |
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New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan
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Repeat Dose Toxicity NEDO (Database) This database contains information on repeated dose toxicity of 82 industrial chemicals. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
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ERBA OASIS (Database) This database includes data on Estrogen Receptor Binding Affinity (ERBA) expressed as relative binding affinities in comparison with the estradiol affinity. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria |
Genotoxicity OASIS (Database) This database includes experimental results on bioaccumulation in aquatic organisms. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria |
Micronucleus OASIS (Database) The micronucleus database consists of 577 chemicals having in vivo bone marrow and peripheral blood MNT data. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria |
Chemical Elements (Profiler) This profiler contains all chemical elements from Periodic table organised in 18 groups. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria |
DNA Binding by OASIS (Profiler) This DNA binding categorisation scheme is based on the model of Ames mutagenicity developed by LMC. |
Mekenyan, O. et al 2004, Serafimova R. et al. 2007, |
Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria |
Organic functional groups (Profiler) This profiler includes 227 organic functional groups, specific groups of atoms that are responsible for the characteristic chemical reactions of those molecules. |
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German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
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Eye irritation/corrosion exclusion rules by BfR (Profiler) The exclusion rules for eye irritation/corrosion are based on physico-chemical cut-off values to identify chemicals that do not exhibit eye irritation or corrosion potential. |
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German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) |
Eye irritation/corrosion inclusion rules by BfR (Profiler) This profiler is based on empirically derived structural inclusion rules to identify chemicals that show potential for eye irritation and corrosion. |
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German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) |
Skin irritation/corrosion exclusion rules by BfR (Profiler) This exclusion rules for skin irritation/corrosion are based on physico-chemical cut-off values to identify chemicals that do not exhibit skin irritation or corrosion potential. |
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German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) |
Skin irritation/corrosion inclusion rules by BfR (Profiler) This profiler contains structural alerts which can be used for positive classification of chemicals causing irritation, corrosion or the combination irritation/corrosion depending on their mechanisms. |
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University of Vienna, Austria
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Organic functional groups, Norbert Haider (checkmol) (Profiler) The profiler consists of 204 organic functional groups recognized by "Checkmol" program which was developed by Dr Haider, University of Vienna. |
Checkmol Programme: LINK |
Multicase Inc.
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Model for the Prediction of the Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient (QSAR) |
J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46 (4), |
Multicase Inc. |
Model for the Estimation of the Aqueous Solubility of Organic Molecules by the Group Contribution Approach (QSAR) |
J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., 2001, 41 (2), |
Multicase Inc. |
Model of estimating estrogen receptor (ER) binding (QSAR) |
Chemosphere Volume 51, |
Multicase Inc. |
Model for estimating the toxicity to microorganisms (Vibrio Fischeri) (QSAR) |
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry |
Multicase Inc. |
Model for estimating Human Intestinal Absorption (QSAR) |
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, |
ChemAxon
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Model for estimating pKa (QSAR) This is a database of predictions for pKa for 150,000 chemicals. |
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Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Italy
Office of Public Health, Switzerland
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Micronucleus ISS MIC (Database) This is a curated database, containing critically-selected information on chemical compounds tested with the in vivo Micronucleus mutagenicity assay in rodents. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
US-EPA |
Acute aquatic Toxicity MOA by OASIS (Profiler) This profiler classifies chemicals for their acute aquatic toxicity mode of action, which was developed by the US-EPA. |
Russom CL et al. 1997. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 16 (5):948-967 |
Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
US-EPA |
Oncologic primary classification (Profiler) This profiler consists of molecular definitions developed by the US-EPA to mimic the structural criteria of chemical classes of potential carcinogens covered by the US-EPA's OncoLogic™ Cancer Expert System for Predicting Carcinogenicity Potential. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan |
OASIS Biodegradation (Database) This database includes experimental results on biodegradation performed within the Japanese Existing Chemicals Programme. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
US-EPA
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan |
Aquatic OASIS (Database) This database includes experimental results for aquatic toxicity gathered from different sources. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan
Exxon Mobil |
OASIS Bioaccumulation (Database) This database includes experimental results on bioaccumulation from the Japanese Existing Chemicals Programme as well as results generated by Exxon Mobil. |
Japanese Database: LINK |
Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
Unilever
Exxon Mobil
P&G |
Skin Sensitisation (Database) This database includes experimental results for skin sensitisation gathered by LMC, Unilever, Exxon Mobil, P&G and OECD. |
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Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry (LMC), Bulgaria
L'Oréal
Exxon Mobil
Unilever
Dow Chemical
Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM)
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Protein Binding by OASIS (Profiler) These structural alerts on protein binding have been developed by industry consortia with the LMC. |
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International QSAR Foundation
Unilever
University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
GSH Experimental EC50 This data set includes empirical abiotic thiol reactivity expressed by the in chemico RC50 value for electrophiles. |
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