Monotonic dose-response testing for Nanomaterial toxicity

Commonly used acronym: NMTox

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Scope of the method

The Method relates to
  • Animal health
  • Human health
The Method is situated in
  • Basic Research
  • Translational - Applied Research
Type of method
  • In silico

Description

Method keywords
  • data exploration
  • dose response
  • monotonic trend
Scientific area keywords
  • nanomaterials
Method description

NMTox is an R-software package and a Shiny app that can be used to explore and subset large datasets and can identify and test for monotonic dose responses. The package was developed within the NanoInformaTIX project where a platform is developed that aims to predict nanomaterial toxicity.

Method status
  • Internally validated

Pros, cons & Future potential

Advantages

Versatile tool to be used for several applications.

Challenges

Learning curve if the R-package is used.

References, associated documents and other information

Links
Dose-response modelling for NanoInformatics toxicity

Contact person

Geert Verheyen

Organisations

Thomas More University of Applied Sciences
RADIUS
Belgium

University of Hasselt (UHasselt)
Centrum voor Statistiek
Belgium