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Record W4414563706 · doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c04614

Multiscale-Information-Embedded Universal Toxicity Prediction Framework

2025· article· en· W4414563706 on OpenAlexaff
Lianlian Wu, Fanmeng Wang, Yixin Zhang, Ruijiang Li, Yanpeng Zhao, Hongteng Xu, Zhifeng Gao, Song He, Xiaochen Bo

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Drug Discovery Methods
Canadian institutionsArtificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)
FundersNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsInterpretabilityGeneralizability theoryIdentification (biology)Representation (politics)Quantitative structure–activity relationshipToxicityHuman healthHazard

Abstract

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Hazard identification and labeling of industrial chemicals and their released environmental pollutants are crucial for mitigating ecological and health risks. Comprehensive evaluation of multiple toxicity end points is essential to fully characterize chemical hazards. Existing deep-learning-based toxicity prediction models often exhibit poor generalizability, especially for rare toxicities with sparse data. Most studies fail to capture the three-dimensional (3D) spatial arrangement and stereochemical properties of chemicals, as well as the interrelated nature among end points, hindering accurate toxicity profiling. Here, we propose ToxScan, an SE(3)-equivariant multiscale model, as a universal toxicity prediction framework to address these issues. It incorporates 3D geometry information through a two-level molecular and atomic representation learning protocol. A parallel multiscale modeling and a multitask learning scheme are applied to learn universal toxicological characteristics. Results show that ToxScan achieves 7.8-37.6% improvements over state-of-the-art models for medium-/small-scale end points, demonstrates differentiation of structural analogues with contrasting toxicities, and maintains generalizability to environmental pollutants. Interpretability analysis at the atomic and molecular levels reveals identifiable atomic interaction patterns and potential structural alerts. Case studies reveal its capacity to detect subtle structural determinants while elucidating the mechanisms of pollutants. To facilitate user accessibility, we provide an intuitive web platform (https://funmg.dp.tech/Toxscan) for the rapid prediction of multiple toxicity end points of new compounds.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.642
Threshold uncertainty score0.556

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.002
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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