ecotox
Enabling Semantic Data Access for Toxicological Risk Assessment
Myklebust, Erik Bryhn, Jimenez-Ruiz, Ernesto, Chen, Jiaoyan, Wolf, Raoul, Tollefsen, Knut Erik
Experimental effort and animal welfare are concerns when exploring the effects a compound has on an organism. Appropriate methods for extrapolating chemical effects can further mitigate these challenges. In this paper we present the efforts to (i) (pre)process and gather data from public and private sources, varying from tabular files to SPARQL endpoints, (ii) integrate the data and represent them as a knowledge graph with richer semantics. This knowledge graph is further applied to facilitate the retrieval of the relevant data for a ecological risk assessment task, extrapolation of effect data, where two prediction techniques are developed.
Knowledge Graph Embedding for Ecotoxicological Effect Prediction
Myklebust, Erik B., Jimenez-Ruiz, Ernesto, Chen, Jiaoyan, Wolf, Raoul, Tollefsen, Knut Erik
Exploring the effects a chemical compound has on a species takes a considerable experimental effort. Appropriate methods for estimating and suggesting new effects can dramatically reduce the work needed to be done by a laboratory. In this paper we explore the suitability of using a knowledge graph embedding approach for ecotoxicological effect prediction. A knowledge graph has been constructed from publicly available data sets, including a species taxonomy and chemical classification and similarity. The publicly available effect data is integrated to the knowledge graph using ontology alignment techniques. Our experimental results show that the knowledge graph based approach improves the selected baselines.