Lee Hyundo, Kim Jisan, Kim Ji-Woon, Lee Yoonji
Department of Global Innovative Drugs, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
College of Pharmacy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Front Chem. 2025 Jul 8;13:1632046. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2025.1632046. eCollection 2025.
Toxicity, defined as the potential harm a substance can cause to living organisms, requires the implementation of stringent regulatory standards to ensure public safety. These standards involve comprehensive testing frameworks, including hazard identification, dose-response evaluation, exposure assessment, and risk characterization. In drug discovery and development, these processes are often complex, time-consuming, and also resource-intensive. Toxicity-related failures in the later stages of drug development can lead to substantial financial losses, underscoring the need for reliable toxicity prediction during the early discovery phases. The advent of computational approaches has accelerated a shift toward modeling, virtual screening, and, notably, artificial intelligence (AI) to identify potential toxicities earlier in the pipeline. Ongoing advances in databases, algorithms, and computational power have further expanded AI's role in pharmaceutical research. Today, AI models are capable of predicting wide range of toxicity endpoints, such as hepatotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and genotoxicity, based on diverse molecular representations ranging from traditional descriptors to graph-based methods. This review provides an in-depth examination of AI-driven toxicity prediction, emphasizing its transformative impact on drug discovery and its growing importance in improving safety assessments.
毒性被定义为一种物质可能对生物体造成的潜在危害,这就需要实施严格的监管标准以确保公众安全。这些标准涉及全面的测试框架,包括危害识别、剂量反应评估、暴露评估和风险特征描述。在药物发现和开发过程中,这些流程通常复杂、耗时且资源密集。药物开发后期与毒性相关的失败可能导致巨大的经济损失,这凸显了在早期发现阶段进行可靠毒性预测的必要性。计算方法的出现加速了向建模、虚拟筛选,尤其是人工智能(AI)的转变,以便在研发流程中更早地识别潜在毒性。数据库、算法和计算能力的不断进步进一步扩大了AI在药物研究中的作用。如今,AI模型能够基于从传统描述符到基于图形的方法等多种分子表示,预测广泛的毒性终点,如肝毒性、心脏毒性、肾毒性、神经毒性和遗传毒性。本综述深入探讨了AI驱动的毒性预测,强调其对药物发现的变革性影响以及在改进安全性评估方面日益增长的重要性。
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