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Importance of Data Curation in QSAR Studies Especially While Modeling Large-Size Datasets

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Ecotoxicological QSARs

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A huge amount of chemical and biological data that is available in several online databases can now be easily retrieved and studied by many researchers (including QSAR modelers) to extract meaningful information. Everyone is naturally aware, however, of the errors in chemical structures and biological data that are possibly present in the retrieved data from these online databases. Implications of those might be severe, particularly for QSAR modelers since developing models using such erroneous data will certainly lead to false or non-predictive models. Proper curation of the retrieved chemical and biological data is therefore crucial and mandatory prior to any QSAR modeling. For large datasets, manual data curation becomes highly impossible, nevertheless. This chapter reviews and discusses the several data curation tools normally applied for such endeavors, paying special attention to those that can be used to semiautomate the curation process, like resorting to a workflow by employing the freely available KNIME software.

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This work was supported by UID/QUI/50006/2019 with funding from FCT/MCTES through national funds.

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    Pravin Ambure & M. Natália Dias Soeiro Cordeiro

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Ambure, P., Cordeiro, M.N.D.S. (2020). Importance of Data Curation in QSAR Studies Especially While Modeling Large-Size Datasets. 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_5

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