Medical devices
Our services for medical devices
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Computational toxicology assessment of potential genotoxicity.
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In silico predictions for toxicological profiling.
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Safety/risk assessment.
Tools that we employ are:
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Leadscope Model Applier
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Lhasa (Derek and Sarah)
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Other (VEGA/OECD QSAR Toolbox/T.E.S.T./Toxtree)
In Silico Toxicology
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In silico toxicology (also referred to as computational toxicology) aims at predicting toxicity generally from chemical structure.
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In silico toxicology includes category formation (grouping) and read-across, Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR), Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR), and Expert Systems.
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In silico toxicology methods play a crucial role to generating additional information for complementing and ultimately enhancing or supporting a risk assessment, including an understanding of the structural and/or mechanistic basis that may contribute ideas for the rational design of new chemicals, development of a testing strategy or an overall weight-of-evidence evaluation.
References:
Myatt, G. et al. (2018). In silico toxicology protocols. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol, 96, 1-17.
Pavan, M. et al. (2016). The consultancy activity on in silico models for genotoxic prediction of pharmaceutical impurities. In: Benfenati E. (eds) In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1425. Humana Press, New York, NY
Bassan A., Worth A. P. (2007). Computational Tools for Regulatory Needs. In: Ekins S. (eds) Risk Assessment For Pharmaceutical And Environmental Chemicals, , Wiley & Sons, Inc.