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    Afantitis, Antreas; Melagraki, Georgia; Isigonis, Panagiotis; Tsoumanis, Andreas; Varsou, Dimitra Danai; Valsami-Jones, Eugenia; Papadiamantis, Anastasios; Ellis, Laura-Jayne A.; Sarimveis, Haralambos; Doganis, Philip; Karatzas, Pantelis; Tsiros, Periklis; Liampa, Irene; Lobaskin, Vladimir; Greco, Dario; Serra, Angela; Kinaret, Pia Anneli Sofia; Saarimäki, Laura Aliisa; Grafström, Roland; Kohonen, Pekka; Nymark, Penny; Willighagen, Egon; Puzyn, Tomasz; Rybinska-Fryca, Anna; Lyubartsev, Alexander; Alstrup Jensen, Keld; Brandenburg, Jan Gerit; Lofts, Stephen; Svendsen, Claus; Harrison, Samuel; Maier, Dieter; Tamm, Kaido; Jänes, Jaak; Sikk, Lauri; Dusinska, Maria; Longhin, Eleonora; Rundén-Pran, Elise; Mariussen, Espen; El Yamani, Naouale; Unger, Wolfgang; Radnik, Jörg; Tropsha, Alexander; Cohen, Yoram; Leszczynski, Jerzy; Ogilvie Hendren, Christine; Wiesner, Mark; Winkler, David; Suzuki, Noriyuki; Yoon, Tae Hyun; Choi, Jang-Sik; Sanabria, Natasha; Gulumian, Mary; Lynch, Iseult

    Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 01/2020, Letnik: 18
    Journal Article

    Display omitted •The variability of nanomaterials makes case-by-case risk assessment impractical.•Read-across and machine learning approaches are required to ensure consumer safety.•Access to harmonized and integrated datasets for modelling is a current bottleneck.•Risk prediction requires integration of models covering release, exposure and hazards.•NanoSolveIT integrates multi-scale models into an in silico risk assessment framework. Nanotechnology has enabled the discovery of a multitude of novel materials exhibiting unique physicochemical (PChem) properties compared to their bulk analogues. These properties have led to a rapidly increasing range of commercial applications; this, however, may come at a cost, if an association to long-term health and environmental risks is discovered or even just perceived. Many nanomaterials (NMs) have not yet had their potential adverse biological effects fully assessed, due to costs and time constraints associated with the experimental assessment, frequently involving animals. Here, the available NM libraries are analyzed for their suitability for integration with novel nanoinformatics approaches and for the development of NM specific Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) for human and environmental risk assessment, all within the NanoSolveIT cloud-platform. These established and well-characterized NM libraries (e.g. NanoMILE, NanoSolutions, NANoREG, NanoFASE, caLIBRAte, NanoTEST and the Nanomaterial Registry (>2000 NMs)) contain physicochemical characterization data as well as data for several relevant biological endpoints, assessed in part using harmonized Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) methods and test guidelines. Integration of such extensive NM information sources with the latest nanoinformatics methods will allow NanoSolveIT to model the relationships between NM structure (morphology), properties and their adverse effects and to predict the effects of other NMs for which less data is available. The project specifically addresses the needs of regulatory agencies and industry to effectively and rapidly evaluate the exposure, NM hazard and risk from nanomaterials and nano-enabled products, enabling implementation of computational ‘safe-by-design’ approaches to facilitate NM commercialization.