A Market-Basket Approach to Predict the Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Munitions and Energetic Materials.
An ongoing challenge in chemical production, including the production of insensitive munitions and energetics, is the ability to make predictions about potential environmental hazards early in the process. To address this challenge, a quantitative structure activity relationship model was developed to predict acute fathead minnow toxicity of insensitive munitions and energetic materials. Computational predictive toxicology models like this one may be used to identify and prioritize environmentally safer materials early in their development. The developed model is based on the Apriori market-basket/frequent itemset mining approach to identify probabilistic prediction rules using chemical atom-pairs and the lethality data for 57 compounds from a fathead minnow acute toxicity assay. Lethality data were discretized into four categories based on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. Apriori identified toxicophores for categories two and three. The model classified 32 of the 57 compounds correctly, with a fivefold cross-validation classification rate of 74 %. A structure-based surrogate approach classified the remaining 25 chemicals correctly at 48 %. This result is unsurprising as these 25 chemicals were fairly unique within the larger set.
US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 3909 Halls Ferry Road, Vicksburg, MS, 39180, USA. lyle.d.burgoon@usace.army.mil.
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D000818:Animals; D003530:Cyprinidae; D007928:Lethal Dose 50; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D021281:Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship; D023382:Toxicity Tests, Acute; D014481:United States; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis / Q000633:toxicity*; D054041:Weapons
D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
Acute toxicity; Aquatic toxicology; Computational toxicology; Energetics; Fish toxicity; Munitions; Predictive toxicology; QSAR; Quantitative structure activity relationship