DiXa: a data infrastructure for chemical safety assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

The field of toxicogenomics (the application of '-omics' technologies to risk assessment of compound toxicities) has expanded in the last decade, partly driven by new legislation, aimed at reducing animal testing in chemical risk assessment but mainly as a result of a paradigm change in toxicology towards the use and integration of genome wide data. Many research groups worldwide have generated large amounts of such toxicogenomics data. However, there is no centralized repository for archiving and making these data and associated tools for their analysis easily available.

Results

The Data Infrastructure for Chemical Safety Assessment (diXa) is a robust and sustainable infrastructure storing toxicogenomics data. A central data warehouse is connected to a portal wit

SUBMITTER: Hendrickx DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410652 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature