Open PHACTS Chemistry Platform Update and Learnings
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This presentation was a webinar update to the Open PHACTS community regarding the release of the OPen PHACTS open source components of the Chemical Registration System and, more specifically, the Chemical validation and Standardization Platform. The need for a community set of rules was driven home with the Chemical validation and Standardization Platform potentially being an example platform for the rules.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Computational Toxicology Program utilizes computational and data-driven approaches that integrate chemistry, exposure and biological data to help characterize potential risks from chemical exposure. The National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) has measured, assembled and delivered an enormous quantity and diversity of data for the environmental sciences, including high-throughput in vitro screening data, in vivo and functional use data, exposure models and chemical databases with associated properties. The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard website provides access to data associated with ~900,000 chemical substances. New data are added on an ongoing basis, including the registration of new and emerging chemicals, data extracted from the literature, chemicals studied in our labs, and data of interest to specific research projects at the EPA. Hazard and exposure data have been assembled from a large number of public databases and as a result the dashboard surfaces hundreds of thousands of data points. Other data includes experimental and predicted physicochemical property data, in vitro bioassay data for over 4000 chemicals and ~1500 assays, and millions of chemical identifiers (names and CAS Registry Numbers) to facilitate searching. Other integrated modules include an interactive read-across module, real-time physicochemical and toxicity endpoint prediction and an integrated search to PubMed. This presentation will provide an overview of the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard and how it has developed into an integrated data hub for environmental data. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental science
US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental scienceUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
This presentation was given at the ASMS Sanibel Conference "Unraveling the Exposome" and provided a general overview of the dashboard and how it integrates to many of the projects that we support but with a special focus on list generation, mass and formula searching based on MS-Ready structures and some of the prototypes that we have been developing to support non-targeted analysis.The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard to support Non-Targeted Analysis
The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard to support Non-Targeted AnalysisUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
Multiple regulatory bodies (EPA, ECHA, Health Canada) are currently tasked with prioritizing chemicals for data collection and risk assessments. These prioritization efforts are in response to regulatory mandates to identify chemicals for further assessment. We have developed a web-based application that enables a rapid, flexible and transparent prioritization process. The tool includes multiple data streams related to human and ecological hazard, exposure, and physicochemical properties (persistence and bioaccumulation). For human hazard, the data streams include quantitative points of departure (PODs) that are compiled from multiple sources such as EPA ToxRefDB, ECHA, COSMOS; estimated PODs from high-throughput in vitro screening assays and computational models; and qualitative measurements and predictions of specific endpoints (e.g., genotoxicity, endocrine activity). For ecological hazard, quantitative PODs are taken from the EPA ECOTOX database. Exposure information includes production volume, quantitative predictions using the EPA ExpoCast and SHEDS models, biomonitoring data, and qualitative information such as media occurrence, use profiles and likelihood of consumer and childhood exposures. The use of the tool is illustrated by prioritizing chemicals related to TSCA and the Safer Choice Ingredient List. The underpinning data streams for this application are already available in the EPA CompTox Chemistry Dashboard and have been repurposed to deliver this application. This is in keeping with our overarching software development methodology of providing multiple “building blocks” in the form of databases, web services and visualization components to deliver fit-for purpose applications to the relevant audiences. This abstract does not necessarily represent U.S. EPA policy.Development of a Tool for Systematic Integration of Traditional and New Appro...
Development of a Tool for Systematic Integration of Traditional and New Appro...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Computational Toxicology Program utilizes computational and data-driven approaches that integrate chemistry, exposure and biological data to help characterize potential risks from chemical exposure. The National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) has measured, assembled and delivered an enormous quantity and diversity of data for the environmental sciences, including high-throughput in vitro screening data, in vivo and functional use data, exposure models and chemical databases with associated properties. The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard website provides access to data associated with ~900,000 chemical substances. New data are added on an ongoing basis, including the registration of new and emerging chemicals, data extracted from the literature, chemicals studied in our labs, and data of interest to specific research projects at the EPA. Hazard and exposure data have been assembled from a large number of public databases and as a result the dashboard surfaces hundreds of thousands of data points. Other data includes experimental and predicted physicochemical property data, in vitro bioassay data and millions of chemical identifiers (names and CAS Registry Numbers) to facilitate searching. Other integrated modules include real-time physicochemical and toxicity endpoint prediction and an integrated search to PubMed. This presentation will provide an overview of the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard and how it has developed into an integrated data hub for environmental data. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental science
US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental scienceUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and non-targeted analysis (NTA) are advancing the identification of emerging contaminants in environmental matrices, improving the means by which exposure analyses can be conducted. However, confidence in structure identification of unknowns in NTA presents challenges to analytical chemists. Structure identification requires integration of complementary data types such as reference databases (either commercial or open databases), fragmentation prediction tools, and retention time prediction models. One goal of our research is to optimize and implement structure identification functionality within the US EPA’s CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, an open chemistry resource and web application containing data for ~900,000 substances. Database searching using mass or formula-based inputs has been optimized for structure identification using “MS-Ready Structures”: de-salted, stripped of stereochemistry, and mixture separated to replicate the form of a chemical observed via HRMS. Functionality to conduct batch searching of molecular formulae and monoisotopic masses has also been implemented. While the increasing number of free online databases are of value to support chemical structure verification and elucidation there are known issues regarding data quality and careful data curation is a very necessary part of the development of these resources. This presentation will provide an overview of our latest enhancements to the dashboard to support mass spectrometry, incorporation of specific datasets (i.e. to support breath research and household dust analysis) and the value of metadata and predicted fragmentation spectral matching to support structure identification. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard – a key player in the domain of Open S...
The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard – a key player in the domain of Open S...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
Non-targeted analysis (NTA) uses high-resolution mass spectrometry to better understand the identity of a wide variety of chemicals present in environmental samples (and other matrices). However, data processing remains challenging due to the vast number of chemicals detected in samples, software and computational requirements of data processing, and inherent uncertainty in confidently identifying chemicals from candidate lists. Analysis of the resultant mass spectrometry information relies on cheminformatics to identify and rank chemicals and the US EPA has developed functionality within the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard (https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard) to address challenges related to this analysis. These tools include the generation of “MS-Ready” structures to optimize database searching, retention time prediction for candidate reduction, consensus ranking using chemical metadata, and in silico MS/MS fragmentation prediction for spectral matching. Combining these tools into a comprehensive workflow improves certainty in candidate identification. This presentation will review how the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard via its flexible search capabilities, rich data for ~900,000 chemical substances, and visualization approaches within this open chemistry resource provides a freely available software tool to support structure identification and NTA. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.Non-targeted analysis supported by data and cheminformatics delivered via the...
Non-targeted analysis supported by data and cheminformatics delivered via the...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
EPA’s National Center for Computational Toxicology is developing automated workflows for curating large databases within the DSSTox project, and providing accurate linkages of data to chemical structures, exposure and hazard information. The data are made available via the EPA’s CompTox Chemicals Dashboard (https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard), a publicly accessible website providing access to data for ~880,000 chemical substances, the majority of these represented as chemical structures. The web application delivers a wide array of computed and measured physicochemical properties, in vitro high-throughput screening data and in vivo toxicity data, as well as integrated chemical linkages to a growing list of literature, toxicology, and analytical chemistry websites. In addition, several specific search types are in development to directly support the mass spectrometry non-targeted screening community, enabling cohesive workflows to support data generation for the detection and assessment of environmental exposures to chemicals contained within the database. The application provides access to segregated lists of chemicals that are of specific interest to relevant stakeholders, including, for example, scientists interested in Per- & Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). Added lists include those sourced from the European Union as well as developed in-house and now containing thousands of chemicals. A procured testing library of hundreds of PFAS chemicals annotated into chemical categories has been integrated into the dashboard with a number of resulting benefits: a searchable database of chemical properties, with hazard and exposure predictions, and links to the open literature. This presentation will provide an overview of the dashboard, the developing library of PFAS chemicals and associated categorization, and new physicochemical property and environmental fate and transport QSAR prediction models developed for these chemicals. The application of the dashboard to support mass spectrometry non-targeted analysis studies for the identification of PFAS chemicals will also be reviewed. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.PFAS Chemistry: Range, Complexity, Groupings, and the CompTox Chemicals Dash...
PFAS Chemistry: Range, Complexity, Groupings, and the CompTox Chemicals Dash...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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An examination of data quality on QSAR Modeling in regards to the environment...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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The needs for chemistry standards, database tools and data curation at the ch...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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Structure identification approaches using the EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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New developments in delivering public access to data from the National Center...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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The EPA iCSS Chemistry Dashboard to Support Compound Identification Using Hig...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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Chemical identification of unknowns in high resolution mass spectrometry usin...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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US EPA CompTox Chemistry Dashboard as a source of data to fill data gaps for ...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Computational Toxicology Program utilizes computational and data-driven approaches that integrate chemistry, exposure and biological data to help characterize potential risks from chemical exposure. The National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) has measured, assembled and delivered an enormous quantity and diversity of data for the environmental sciences, including high-throughput in vitro screening data, in vivo and functional use data, exposure models and chemical databases with associated properties. The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard website provides access to data associated with ~900,000 chemical substances. New data are added on an ongoing basis, including the registration of new and emerging chemicals, data extracted from the literature, chemicals studied in our labs, and data of interest to specific research projects at the EPA. Hazard and exposure data have been assembled from a large number of public databases and as a result the dashboard surfaces hundreds of thousands of data points. Other data includes experimental and predicted physicochemical property data, in vitro bioassay data for over 4000 chemicals and ~1500 assays, and millions of chemical identifiers (names and CAS Registry Numbers) to facilitate searching. Other integrated modules include an interactive read-across module, real-time physicochemical and toxicity endpoint prediction and an integrated search to PubMed. This presentation will provide an overview of the CompTox Chemicals Dashboard and how it has developed into an integrated data hub for environmental data. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental science
US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental scienceUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
This presentation was given at the ASMS Sanibel Conference "Unraveling the Exposome" and provided a general overview of the dashboard and how it integrates to many of the projects that we support but with a special focus on list generation, mass and formula searching based on MS-Ready structures and some of the prototypes that we have been developing to support non-targeted analysis.The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard to support Non-Targeted Analysis
The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard to support Non-Targeted AnalysisUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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Development of a Tool for Systematic Integration of Traditional and New Appro...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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US-EPA Chemicals Dashboard – an integrated data hub for environmental scienceUS Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and non-targeted analysis (NTA) are advancing the identification of emerging contaminants in environmental matrices, improving the means by which exposure analyses can be conducted. However, confidence in structure identification of unknowns in NTA presents challenges to analytical chemists. Structure identification requires integration of complementary data types such as reference databases (either commercial or open databases), fragmentation prediction tools, and retention time prediction models. One goal of our research is to optimize and implement structure identification functionality within the US EPA’s CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, an open chemistry resource and web application containing data for ~900,000 substances. Database searching using mass or formula-based inputs has been optimized for structure identification using “MS-Ready Structures”: de-salted, stripped of stereochemistry, and mixture separated to replicate the form of a chemical observed via HRMS. Functionality to conduct batch searching of molecular formulae and monoisotopic masses has also been implemented. While the increasing number of free online databases are of value to support chemical structure verification and elucidation there are known issues regarding data quality and careful data curation is a very necessary part of the development of these resources. This presentation will provide an overview of our latest enhancements to the dashboard to support mass spectrometry, incorporation of specific datasets (i.e. to support breath research and household dust analysis) and the value of metadata and predicted fragmentation spectral matching to support structure identification. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard – a key player in the domain of Open S...
The US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard – a key player in the domain of Open S...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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Open PHACTS Chemistry Platform Update and Learnings
- 1. Open PHACTS - Chemistry Platform Update and learnings Antony Williams and Valery Tkachenko ORCID ID:0000-0002-2668-4821
- 2. @gray_alasdair Big Data Integration 2 OpenPHACTS and CRS Diagram
- 3. The Chemical Registration Service Chemistry processing •Validation •Standardization •Properties generation •Properties retrieval Export •RDF •SDF API •Domain-specific searches •Chemical visualization •Properties •Conversions
- 5. Subsystems • “CVSP” (frontend, backend, database) • Compounds (frontend, database) • OpenPHACTS API (frontend, database) • Datasources registry (frontend, database) • Processing farm (optional)
- 6. Structure-Based Database linking • Open PHACTS, and many other projects requiring the linking of structure databases, depend on mappings • Different databases use different processes for standardization prior at deposition • Examples: PubChem, EBI databases, ChemSpider, etc.
- 7. DrugBank • ~60 records can’t be dearomatized unambiguously • ~40 records where InChIs did not match structure • 2 records where SMILES, InChI and name did not match the structure • 7 records with 2 stereo bonds at chiral atoms DB04283 DB04462
- 8. Standardizers • EBI Standardizer: https://wwwdev.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/extra/francis/sta / • PubChem Standardizer: https:// pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/standardize/standardi • NCGC Standardizer: https://tripod.nih.gov/? p=61 • The CVSP Standardizer work in Open PHACTS http://cvsp.chemspider.com/
- 10. Standardization Rules • Available from: http://tinyurl.com/hwapem3 • Use the SRS as guidance for standardization • Adjust as necessary to our needs
- 11. Nitro groups
- 12. Salt and Ionic Bonds
- 14. Supports various file formats
- 15. Comptox Chemistry Dashboard Prior to deposition check a deposition…
- 16. >3450 compounds in one SDF
- 17. 98 Errors, 1571 Warnings
- 18. Review Errors
- 20. Various Rules Sets Available
- 21. CVSP – My own custom rules
- 22. ChEMBL Validation Review (of 1.3 million records) • 11,020 records with 4 bonds and zero charge, e.g. CHEMBL501101 or CHEMBL501973 • 271 records with hypervalent oxygen (e.g. , CHEMBL2219679), carbon (e.g. 1005895), boron, chlorine, iodine or phosphine • 6,177 records where direction of bond makes no sense, e.g. CHEMBL12760 and CHEMBL34704
- 23. Chemical Validation first… Standardization Second • Chemical Validation detects errors – Standardization FIXES them according to rules • SMIRKS transformations are based on both InChI Normalization and FDA SRS rules
- 24. Standardization SMIRKS Examples of InChI normalization [*;H+:1]>>[*;H:1] [O,S,Se,Te:1]=[O+,S+,Se+,Te+:2][C-;v3:3]>>[O,S,Se,Te:1]=[O,S,Se,Te:2]=[C:3] [N-,P-,As-,Sb-:1]=[C+;v3:2]>>[N,P,As,Sb:1]#[C:2] Examples of FDA SRS rules [n:1]=[O:2]>>[n+:1][O-:2] [*:1]=[N:2]#[N:3]>>[*:1]=[N+:2]=[N-:3] [N+0;H3:1].[C:3](=[O:4])[O:5][H:6]>>[N+1;H4:1].[C:3](=[O:4])[O-:5] Thiopurine [H:1][S:2][c:3]1[n:8][c:7]([H,*:13])[n:6][c:5]2[c:4]1[n:11][c:10] ([H,*:12])[n:9]2>>[H:1][N:8]1[C:7]([H,*:13])=[N:6][C:5]2=[C:4]([N:11]=[C:10] ([H,*:12])[N:9]2)[C:3]1=[S:2]
- 25. Examples of Standardization Double bond with adjacent wiggly single bond Collapser hydrogen atoms with no stereo bonds
- 26. Examples of Standardization Remove symmetric stereocenters Turn off chiral flag if no up or down bonds
- 27. Defining a Community Rule Set • There are multiple standardizers, each with their own rules set • Can we decide on a default community rules set, like Standard InChI, that could be used by ALL Standardizers? • A joint meeting between the Research Data Alliance (RDA), IUPAC and ACS Division of Chemical Information discussed the value and possibilities of this approach (July 2016)
- 28. EPA is investigating CVSP • EPA is investigating CVSP as a validation and standardization platform • Considering the API aspects of CVSP to integrate to our registration system • CVSP is a reference implementation and “starting point” for a community rules set
- 29. CVSP code is now Open Source • Open Source CVSP code now released • Code is hosted on Open PHACTS Github https://github.com/openphacts/ops-crs • Valery Tkachenko will offer future support • Hoping for additional community engagement and support • Some details of availability….
- 30. Virtual Machines • OPS_FRONT (all websites and API) • OPS_BACK (all heavy-lifting) • OPS_DB (databases) • VMs are VMware images • Can be converted to other hypervisors
- 31. Thank you Emails: tony27587@gmail.com and tkachenko.valery@gmail.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Editor's Notes
- Open PHACTS was developed to support the key questions of drug discovery Business questions have been at the heart of Open PHACTS and have driven the development of the platform Mx/psa, how calculated who did it? Mash up. With your data too, - top layer join together but need them all commercial Data provided by many publishers Originally in many formats: relational, SD files and RDF Worked closely with publishers Data licensing was a major issue Over 5 billion triples – 14 datasets & growing Hosted on beefy hardware; data in memory (aim) Extensive memcaching Pose complex queries to extract data