Abstract
In this chapter, we present and discuss Enalos Cloud Platform designed and developed by NovaMechanics Ltd., as an easy-to-use portal to address a variety of challenges arising in the fields of cheminformatics and nanoinformatics. Enalos Cloud Platform also hosts predictive models as web services that can contribute to different aspects of material design and development, drug discovery, virtual screening of chemical substances, nanosafety, and the development of safe-by-design (nano)materials. All models included are developed and validated according to the OECD principles. The web services’ interface is carefully designed with the aim of being simple and user-friendly, to allow also users with no informatics background to easily use the models and benefit from the produced predictions and results. At the end of the chapter, we aspire that readers will perceive the functionalities and the efficiency of the available web services and how these could be integrated in drug discovery or material design projects.
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This work was supported by the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation, the Republic of Cyprus & the European Union under Grant agreement KOINA/ERASysAPP-ERA.NET/1113 and the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 691095 (NANOGENTOOLS) & 731032 (NanoCommons).
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Varsou, DD., Tsoumanis, A., Afantitis, A., Melagraki, G. (2020). Enalos Cloud Platform: Nanoinformatics and Cheminformatics Tools. In: Roy, K. (eds) Ecotoxicological QSARs. Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0150-1_31
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