Toxicology contributing disciplines

Table 1.2. Scientific disciplines contributing to environmental toxicology.

Many disciplines contribute an understanding of toxicology (see table 5.1). Forensic toxicology is concerned with the medical and legal questions relating to the harm-... 

Table 5.1. Selected disciplines that contribute to a more complete understanding of toxicology.

A second initiative is being developed by Dr. Ann Richard and coworkers at the EPA. The Distributed Structure-Searchable Toxicity (DSSTox) public database network is a flexible community-supported, web-based approach for the collation of data. It is based on the SDF format for the representation of chemical structure. It is intended to enable decentralized, free public access to toxicity data files. This should allow users from different disciplines to be linked. Public, commercial, industry, and academic groups have also been asked to contribute to, and expand, the DSSTox public database network. Data from potentially any toxicological endpoint can be collated in the DSSTox public database network, including both human health, and environmental endpoints (Richard et al 2002 Richard and Williams, 2002). 

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