The Tox21 data set comprises 12,060 training samples and 647 test samplesthat represent chemical compounds. There are 801 "dense features" that represent chemical descriptors, such asmolecular weight, solubility or surface area, and 272,776 "sparse features" that represent chemicalsubstructures (ECFP10, DFS6, DFS8; stored inMatrix Market Format). Machine learning methods can either use sparse or dense dataor combine them. For each sample there are 12 binary labels that represent the outcome (active/inactive) of 12 different toxicological experiments. Note that the label matrix contains many missing values (NAs). The original data source and Tox21 challenge site ishttps://tripod.nih.gov/tox21/challenge/.
If you use this data set please cite the following publications:
[Mayr2016] Mayr, A., Klambauer, G., Unterthiner, T., & Hochreiter, S. (2016). DeepTox: Toxicity Prediction using Deep Learning.Frontiers in Environmental Science,3:80.
[Huang2016] Huang, R., Xia, M., Nguyen, D. T., Zhao, T., Sakamuru, S., Zhao, J., Shahane, S., Rossoshek, A., & Simeonov, A. (2016). Tox21Challenge to build predictive models of nuclear receptor and stress response pathways as mediated by exposure to environmental chemicals and drugs.Frontiers in Environmental Science,3:85.
![]() Performance of methods in terms of AUC. This table reports the performance of methods that participated in theTox21 Data Challenge in terms of area under ROC curve. The first row, "our method", displays the performance of the Deep Learning method "DeepTox". For details see [Mayr2016]. |