Environmental Chemistry Compound Identification Using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data Integrated to the EPA Chemistry Dashboard
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There is a growing need for rapid chemical screening and prioritization to inform regulatory decision-making on thousands of chemicals in the environment. We have previously used high-resolution mass spectrometry to examine household vacuum dust samples using liquid chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-TOF/MS). Using a combination of exact mass, isotope distribution, and isotope spacing, molecular features were matched with a list of chemical formulas from the EPA’s Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) database. This has further developed our understanding of how openly available chemical databases, together with the appropriate searches, could be used for the purpose of compound identification. We report here on the utility of the EPA’s iCSS Chemistry Dashboard for the purpose of compound identification using searches against a database of over 720,000 chemicals. We also examine the benefits of QSAR prediction for the purpose of retention time prediction to allow for alignment of both chromatographic and mass spectral properties. This abstract does not reflect U.S. EPA policy.
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The CompTox Chemicals Dashboard is an open chemistry resource and web-based application containing data for ~900,000 substances. While it pales in comparison to other online resources containing many tens of millions of chemical substances it represents two decades of effort to aggregate and curate chemical data to deliver access to physicochemical properties and environmental fate and transport data, in vitro and in vivo toxicity data and consumer product data for over 500,000 products. Associated with the chemical substance collections are specific lists based on chemical classes (e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)), usage categories (e.g. flame retardants, pesticides), specific environmental classes of interest (e.g. disinfectant by-products) and regulatory lists (e.g. TSCA, Toxics release inventory data). The underlying database expands daily as a result of the efforts of curators who continue to harvest data from peer-reviewed publications, regulatory documents and relevant online databases. The cheminformatics architecture allows for mapping between parent chemicals and related substances including metabolites and environmental degradants. The dashboard has become a valuable resource in the identification of chemical substances in the environment.
High resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) and non-targeted analysis (NTA) are of increasing interest in chemical forensics for the identification of emerging contaminants and chemical signatures of interest. Our research using HRMS for non-targeted and suspect screening analyses utilizes Advanced Search capabilities including mass and formula-based searches. A specific type of data mapping in the underpinning database, using “MS-Ready” structures, has proven to be a valuable approach for structure identification that links structures that can be identified via HRMS with related substances in the form of salts, and other multi-component mixtures that are available in commerce. These MS-Ready structures have been used as an input set for computational MS-fragmentation to provide a database against which to search experimental data for spectral matching. This presentation will provide an overview of how CompTox Chemicals Dashboard, the underlying data, and how it supports structure identification and non-targeted analysis in chemical forensics. This abstract does not necessarily represent the views or policies of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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This abstract does not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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New Approach Methods - What is That?US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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How to place your research questions or results into the context of the "Lega...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
Presentation for Texas A&M Superfund Research Center virtual learning series, Big Data in Environmental Science and Toxicology. More details at https://superfund.tamu.edu/big-data-session-1-july-14-2021/The EPA iCSS Chemistry Dashboard to Support Compound Identification Using Hig...
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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
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Non-targeted analysis supported by data and cheminformatics delivered via the...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
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The EPA Comptox Chemistry Dashboard: A Web-Based Data Integration Hub for Tox...US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Computational Toxicology Program integrates advances in biology, chemistry, and computer science to help prioritize chemicals for further research based on potential human health risks. This work involves computational and data driven approaches that integrate chemistry, exposure and biological data. As an outcome of these efforts 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. A series of software applications and databases have been produced over the past decade to deliver these data but recent developments have focused on the development of a new software architecture that assembles the resources into a single platform. A new web application, the CompTox Chemistry Dashboard provides access to data associated with ~720,000 chemical substances. These data include experimental and predicted physicochemical property data, bioassay screening data associated with the ToxCast program, product and functional use information and a myriad of related data of value to environmental scientists.
The dashboard provides chemical-based searching based on chemical names, synonyms and CAS Registry Numbers. Flexible search capabilities allow for chemical identification based on non-targeted analysis studies using mass spectrometry. Chemical identification using both mass and formula-based searching utilizes rank-ordering of results via functional use statistics, thereby providing a solution to help prioritize chemicals for further review when detected in environmental media.
This presentation will provide an overview of the CompTox Dashboard, its capabilities for delivering data to the environmental toxicology community and how the architecture provides a foundation for the development of additional applications to support chemical risk assessment. This abstract does not reflect U.S. EPA policy.
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- 23. Same top hits – different ranking 90 hits only versus 6926 hits 22 18 17 4Tacedinaline Methyl Red C.I Disperse Yellow 3
- 24. Using Meta-Data to Sort Candidates 23 Anti-cancer Drug Microbiological Indicator Dye Textile/Product Dye
- 25. Chemical Identification Dashboard vs ChemSpider Sorted by number of references (ChemSpider) or data sources (Dashboard) Monoisotopic Mass (+/- 0.005 amu) Search Position of compound sorted Source of List # of Compounds Search Tool Mean Position Median Position #1 #2 #3 #4 #5+ McEachran et al Wastewater 34 ChemSpider 1.8 1 28 5 0 0 1 Dashboard 1.3 1 31 2 0 0 1 Misc. NTA Compounds 13 ChemSpider 2 1 7 5 0 0 1 Dashboard 1.7 1 10 2 0 0 1 Bade et al (2016) 19 ChemSpider 2.1 1 11 2 5 0 1 Dashboard 1.6 1 12 3 3 1 0 Rager et al (2016) 24 ChemSpider 2.25 1 15 2 1 2 4 Dashboard 1.08 1 22 2 0 0 0
- 26. Dashboard vs ChemSpider Ranking Summary Mass-based Searching Formula Based Searching Dashboard ChemSpider Dashboard ChemSpider Cumulative Average Position 1.3 2.2 1.2 1.4 % in #1 Position 85% 70% 88% 80% • Selected peer-reviewed publications • 162 total individual chemicals in search
- 27. Active vs Deleted CASRN 26
- 28. Collisions in CAS Numbers 27
- 29. But there are MANY CASRNs! • http://web.stanford.edu/group/swain/cinf/c asreg/snumber.html 28
- 30. How Bad Can It Get?? 29
- 31. How Bad Can It Get? This one is 316 Deleted CASRN 30
- 32. Our OPEN Data is available… • Various types of data at FTP download site: ftp://newftp.epa.gov/COMPTOX/Sustainable_Chemistry_ Data/Chemistry_Dashboard 31
- 33. Coming December 2016 Batch Searching Names/CASRNs • What are these chemicals? 32
- 34. Coming December 2016 Batch Searching… 33
- 35. Coming December 2016 Download to Excel 34
- 36. Batch Searching of Molecular Formula 35
- 37. Metadata included for Ranking 36
- 38. Need for “MS-Ready Structures” 37
- 39. “QSAR-Ready Structures” • For the purpose of building QSAR Models we already “standardize” structures – Desalt/Neutralize – Desolvate – Remove stereochemistry • Some minor tweaks gets us “MS-ready Structures”. ALREADY in our database. 38
- 40. “QSAR-Ready Structures” • Mass and Formula-based searches will be based on MS-ready structures but connected to the original chemical (with name, CAS, rank ordering) • MS-ready structures and substance mappings will be available as Open Data 39
- 41. Future Work • Continue to research rank-ordering approaches • Working on “retention time prediction” • Search for adducts (+Na, +K, +NH4) and handle decarboxylation, loss of water etc • Expand link outs to Mass Spec databases – Thermo’s mzCloud, Massbank, etc. • Predicting metabolites and degradants • Optimize web services for the community 40
- 42. Acknowledgements EPA NCCT Chris Grulke Jeff Edwards Ann Richard Jennifer Smith Andrew McEachran* EPA NERL Jon Sobus Seth Newton Elin Ulrich * = ORISE Participant
Editor's Notes
- For example- Rager was actually 33 confirmed; Bade was 25