EDTox: an R Shiny application to predict the endocrine disruption potential of compounds.

Abstract

PurposeEndocrine disruptors are a rising concern due to the wide array of health issues that it can cause. Although there are tools for mode of action (MoA)-based prediction of endocrine disruption (e.g. QSAR Toolbox and iSafeRat), none of them is based on toxicogenomics data. Here, we present EDTox, an R Shiny application enabling users to explore and use a computational method that we have recently published to identify and prioritize endocrine disrupting (ED) chemicals based on toxicogenomic data. The EDTox pipeline utilizes previously trained toxicogenomic-driven classifiers to make predictions on new untested compounds by using their molecular initiating events. Furthermore, the proposed R Shiny app allows users to extend the prediction systems by training and adding new classifiers based on new available toxicogenomic data. This functionality helps users to explore the ED potential of chemicals in new, untested exposure scenarios.Availability and implementationThis tool is available as web application (www.edtox.fi) and stand-alone software on GitHub and Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5817093).Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.