Screening statistic

Keywords Assay development, Automation, Data management, High throughput screening, Statistics... 

Recent studies of environmental Pb impacts on children s blood Pb levels have included the relationship of potential changes in tap water lead with changes in community water treatments. Miranda et al. (2007) examined 7,270 PbB screening records in a North Carolina county and linked these to drinking water sources, age of residences, and other variables such as season of screening. Statistically significant associations with PbB included use of chloramines as disinfectants in water treatment... 

In the first step, a screening process will be applied to separate the major potential hazards these will be addressed in more detail. QRA techniques are used to evaluate the extent of the risk arising from hazards with the potential to cause major accidents, based on the prediction of the likelihood and magnitude of the event. This assessment will be based on engineering judgement and statistics of previous performance. Where necessary, risk reduction measures will be applied until the level of risk is acceptable. This of course is an emotive subject, since it implies placing a value on human life. 

In general, the first step in virtual screening is the filtering by the application of Lipinski s Rule of Five [20]. Lipinski s work was based on the results of profiling the calculated physical property data in a set of 2245 compounds chosen from the World Drug Index. Polymers, peptides, quaternary ammonium, and phosphates were removed from this data set. Statistical analysis of this data set showed that approximately 90% of the remaining compounds had ... 

The main objective of the In-Plant Reliability Data System (IPRDS) was to develop a comprehensive and component-specific data base for PRA and other component reliability-related statistical analysis. Data base personnel visited selected plants and copied all the plant maintenance wor)c requests. They also gathered plant equipment lists and plant drawings and in some cases interviewed plant personnel for Information on component populations and duty cycles. Subsequently, the maintenance records were screened to separate out the cases of corrective maintenance applying to particular components these were reviewed to determine such things as failure modes, severity, and, if possible, failure cause. The data from these reports were encoded into a computerized data base. 

Zhang JH, Chung TD, Oldenburg KR (1999) A simple statistical parameter for use in evaluation and validation of high throughput screening assays. J Biomol Screen 4(2) 67-73... 

More recent publications on sulfosuccinates have confirmed the minimal or close to zero skin and eye irritation caused by these products. In a general screening of product safety evaluation methods the authors [16] rejected the sulfosuccinate from further consideration in the statistical analysis of experimental data (variance analysis) because the product had not shown any irritation in the Duhring-Chamber test. The sulfosuccinate (based on fatty alcohol ethoxy late) was tested in a screening with 14 other surfactants, namely, alkyl sulfates, sulfonates, ether sulfates, and a protein fatty acid condensation product. 

We have worked in the field of cheminformatics for about a decade, and in particular we have developed statistical and computer science technology for sequential screening and advocated a paradigm shift to its adoption within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries (see Fig. 17.2). 

A number of commercial expert systems have been applied to screen drug libraries. For instance, DEREK, TOPKAT, MultiCASE, and many other systems all have possibilities in this regard. However, it should be noted that for broad screening only compounds with toxicity associated with them can be identified, and hence these are very crude measures of hazard assessment. The use of expert systems to screen libraries is fraught with dangers, not least that no performance statistics are available for these systems being used for such an application. It is also highly probable that the vast majority of predic-... 

A. J. Charlton, W. H. Farrington, P. Brereton 2002, (Application of 1H NMR and multivariate statistics for screening complex mixtures quality control and authenticity of instant coffee), J. Agric. Food Chem. 50, 3098-3103. 

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