Predicting the effect of toxic compounds on individuals: Crowdsourcing initiative for systems biomedicine
Monday, August 10, 2015 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
An international study presents the combined results of a 2013 DREAM Challenge: a crowd-sourcing initiative to test how well the effects of a toxic compound can be predicted in different people. The study, which is relevant to public and occupational health, shows that computational methods can be used to predict some toxic effects on populations, although they are not yet sensitive enough to predict such effects in individuals. It also presents algorithms useful for environmental risk assessment.