TECHNOLOGY AND CODE article
Front. Pharmacol.
Sec. Predictive Toxicology
This article is part of the Research TopicHarnessing Artificial Intelligence for Next-Generation Predictive ToxicologyView all articles
OrbiTox: A Visualization Platform for NAMs and read-across exploration of Multi-Domain Data
Provisionally accepted- 1Sciome LLC, Research Triangle Park, United States
- 2National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Division of Translational Toxicology, Durham, United States
- 3National Institutes of Health Division of Program Coordination Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Bethesda, United States
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The development of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for Next Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) requires the integration of diverse data streams. A comprehensive understanding of a chemical's potential hazard involves combining multiple mechanistic data, usually from in vitro and in silico studies, to build a coherent weight-of-evidence case. Currently, the lack of tools to effectively aggregate and navigate disparate datasets makes regulatory evaluation a challenging process. OrbiTox addresses this need by consolidating millions of data points from multiple domains, i.e., chemical properties, genes, pathways, and bioactivities, into an intuitive, interactive 3D visualization platform. To support comprehensive chemical assessments, OrbiTox incorporates hundreds of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) models for robust gap-filling of key endpoints. It also facilitates read-across by enabling the retrieval of data-rich chemical analogs with similar structures and metabolic profiles. By unifying experimental data and predictive models within a user-friendly interface, OrbiTox facilitates data-driven chemical safety assessments.
Keywords: web application, Read - across, NAMs: New approach methods, QSARs, computational toxicology
Received: 22 Sep 2025; Accepted: 10 Nov 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ross, Gombar, Sedykh, Green, Borrel, Kidd, Phillips, Shah, Phadke, Mav, Balik-Meisner, Howard, Shah, Kleinstreuer and Casey. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Vijay Gombar, vijay.gombar@sciome.com
Adrian J Green, adrian.green@sciome.com
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