Physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) modeling offers great promise in environmental risk assessment, potentially speeding up dose-response studies while minimizing animal testing. Some limitations exist in the PBTK field, such as difficulty of model development and a lack of application specific software tools to help modelers.
Some parameters used in PBTK models, such as tissue weights, are easily measure. Other parameters can be determined through in-vitro experiments or through extrapolation using published equations. When it is impractical to use these methods to estimate a parameter, techniques can be used to optimize parameters so that model results best fit validation data.
This tool was designed to optimize a user-specified list of parameters to a user-specified PBTK model. The user also controls validation data and optimization algorithms. In addition to optimized parameters, the tool outputs statistical information about the fit of the optimized model.
PBTK Optimizer
Application for optimization of parameters in PBTK models
Status: Beta
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