Ecotox (US EPA)

The ECOTOX database, developed by the U.S. EPA, is publicly available application that provides information on adverse effects of single chemical stressors to ecologically relevant aquatic and terrestrial species.

Data are curated from scientific literature after an exhaustive search protocol. Compiled from over 53,000 references, ECOTOX currently includes over one million test records covering more than 13,000 aquatic and terrestrial species and 12,000 chemicals.

Detailed information here

What has been done ?

ECOTOX datasets have been collected locally through a SQLite database using an R package (more info here).

Data Pipeline (summary)

Dataset
CAS
Tests
Results

All chemicals in ECOTOX

18 481

723 445

1 218 861

Chemicals with tests results in EC10eq

10 278

392 821

694 662

Chemicals with relevant endpoints

7 182

244 074

488 837

Chemicals with valid results (filtered)

5 116

173 977

328 430

Only one EC10eq result per test

3 617

87 358

87 358

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