Acknowledgements, Collaborators, Advisors
Many persons within and outside of EPA contributed to the creation of the DSSTox structure data files and this website; others have subsequently joined the effort. A succession of talented graduate, undergraduate and high-school student EPA trainees provided technical support for this project since its initial conception in 11/00; they are the roots that enabled this project to grow and are listed under main Acknowledgements. The support and involvement of DSSTox Collaborators have given major substance to the project. Finally, Advisors have acted as reviewers, and offered ideas, advice, and encouragement, helping to guide the growth of this project into the future. Of the many listed below, four deserve special mention:
 ClarLynda Williams, lead technician of this project from its inception to a few months before public launch, providing major intellectual contributions to all technical aspects of DSSTox development, expertly mentoring student trainees, and investing her considerable personal energy, talents, and enthusiasm to this public cause;
Jamie Burch, support technician for virtually all aspects of the DSSTox database project, providing invaluable assistance in the initial website development and launch, and subsequently in advancing the NIEHS NTP database collaborations;
Maritja Wolf, hired 8/04 as a full-time Lockheed Martin - Contractor to the EPA, assigned to the DSSTox project, bringing her keen organic chemist's eye and hard-working, perfectionist tendencies to improving the quality of our DSSTox databases and propelling this project forward;
Lois Swirsky-Gold, our first DSSTox Source database collaborator, owed a special debt of gratitude for her patience as we worked through initial stages of the project and for her invaluable assistance in creating and continuing to maintain the highest quality DSSTox product for the CPDB Summary Tables.
The DSSTox project was initiated within EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Laboratory (NHEERL) in the Office of Research and Development (ORD). Since joining EPA's new National Center for Computational Toxicology (NCCT) in 2005, the project has broadened its objectives to addressing challenges of structure-indexing lists of chemicals within EPA programs, bringing a public structure-browsing capability to our effort, and supporting the NCCT ToxCast Research program. The strong support of NCCT management has been crucial to the further development and success of the DSSTox Project and is greatly appreciated.
DSSTox Project Leader
Mail Drop D343-03
National Center for Computational Toxicology
US Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Email: richard.ann@epa.gov
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Acknowledgements:
Students, EPA employees, and outside persons (other than main Collaborators)
who have contributed technical expertise to the launch of the DSSTox project, including
database construction, application scripts, website creation, art or website
content, or technical applications support. Persons contributing expertise and assistance to the constructure of new DSSTox data files are not listed here, but are acknowledged on the specific SDF Download Page Acknowledgements.
EPA Technical assistance:
Maritja Wolf, EPA Senior Environmental Employment Program Contract Employee, 8/04-4/05; Lockheed Martin Senior Scientific Information Specialist, EPA Contractor, 5/05-present.
Jamie Burch, NC Central University Student Undergraduate COOP Trainee,
DSSTox database technician, programmer, and lead website developer, 11/02-8/04; NC State University Toxicology Graduate Program - EPA COOP Trainee, 8/05-present.
ClarLynda Williams, NC Central University Student Undergraduate COOP Trainee, DSSTox lead technician and main coauthor, 12/00-8/03; NC State University Bioinformatics Graduate Program - EPA COOP Trainee, 8/05-present.
Stephen Little, EPA Research Chemist, Python Programmer, 10/04-present
Brian Rogers, NC Central University Student Undergraduate COOP Trainee, DSSTox database technician, 1/04-5/05
Camille Wright , NC Central University Student Undergraduate Volunteer,
DSSTox database technician, programmer, 1/04-4/04
Audrey Evans, Environmental Careers Organization Undergraduate
Student Trainee Program, Summer '03
Todd Stewart, UNC-Chapel Hill Student Undergraduate COOP Trainee,
DSSTox database technician, 1/02-8/02
Nina Fields, Shaw University - EPA Research Trainee Mentorship
Program for Minority High School Students, Summer '02
James Beidler, EPA Undergraduate Summer Student Employee Program,
database technician and initial website development, Summer '01
Daniel Ohouba, Shaw University - EPA Research Trainee Mentorship
Program for Minority High School Students, Summer '01
Adam Swank, EPA Research Chemist, database technical assistance
Dean Kanipe, Diana Marshall, Chuck Gaul, David Hollandsworth, Computer Sciences Corp
(CSC), EPA website development contractor
Tom Transue, Lockheed Martin Corp., EPA Contractor, DSSTox Master migration to MySQL (2006) and DSSTox Structure-Browser development (2007)
David Hollandsworth, CSC Contractor to the US EPA, assistance with website hosting, link-checking, website updates (2005-present).
Chuck Gaul, CSC Contractor to the US EPA, graphics assistance (2007).
Application assistance:
Rich Talbot, CambridgeSoft ChemFinder
Gavin Shears, Michael Hachey, Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD)
ChemFolder
Robin Martin and Peter Frank, Advanced Chemistry Development Technical Support Specialists, ChemFolder assistance and ChemBasic scripts for SDF processing
Steve Bryant, Jane Tseng, Yanli Wang, NIH PubChem Project (2005-present)
External site publishers contributing free distribution of pdf articles: 
Elsevier
Science
Current
Drugs Lmt.
CRC
Press
SETAC
Press
Biotechniques:
Preclinica
Bentham Science Publishers: Current Drug Discovery Technologies
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Collaborators:
DSSTox Sources of DSSTox published data files, persons with whom collaboration
to publish a toxicity database has been initiated, or persons who have
otherwise contributed scientifically and substantially to this effort.
Lois Swirsky-Gold, Director, UC-Berkeley Carcinogenic Potency Project,
Berkeley, CA; CPDBAS; email: lois@potency.berkeley.edu (retired, 2007)
Thomas Slone, UC-Berkeley Carcinogenic Potency Project, Berkeley, CA; CPDBAS; email: tom@potency.berkeley.edu
Chris Russom, US EPA Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Duluth, MN; EPAFHM;
email: russom.chris@epa.gov
Weida Tong, Director, Center for Toxicoinformatics, US FDA, National
Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR; NCTRER,
NCTRAR; email: wtong@nctr.fda.gov
Hong Fang, US FDA, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson,
AR; NCTRER, NCTRAR; email: hfang@nctr.fda.gov
Yin-Tak Woo, US EPA, Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics, DBPCAN;
email: woo.yintak@epa.gov
Errol Zeiger, Zeiger Consulting, formerly NIEHS National Toxicology Program,
NTP Gene-Tox (NTPGTZ); email: zeiger@nc.rr.com
R. Daniel Benz, E. Matthews, J. Contrera, N. Kruhlak, US FDA, Center for
Drug Evaluation & Research, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, Informatics
and Computational Safety Analysis Staff, Maximum Recommended Therapeutic
Dose Database (FDAMRD); contact emails: r.daniel.benz@fda.hhs.gov, matthewse@cder.fda.gov, naomi.kruhlak@fda.hhs.gov
Vijay Gombar, formerly Glaxo-SmithKline, NTP Gene-Tox (NTPGTZ)
Neal Carrielo, Glaxo-SmithKline, NTP Gene-Tox (NTPGTZ); email: nfc20355@GlaxoWellcome.com
Martin Barratt, Marlin Consultancy, Bedford, UK; UniLever Skin Sensitization
Database (UNLVSS); email: martin.d.barratt@btinternet.com
Grace Patlewicz, UniLever UK; UniLever Skin Sensitization Database (UNLVSS);
email: grace.patlewicz@unilever.com
Marcus Johnson, Senior Toxicologist, Integrated Laboratory Systems (ILS), ICVAM databases; email: mjackson@ils-inc.com
Brian Montague, US EPA, Office of Pollution & Pesticides, Pesticides eco-toxicity database (EPAPET); email: montague.brian@epa.gov
Chihae Yang, Product Development Director, LeadScope Inc., NTP Gene-Tox (NTPGTZ), CPDB review; email: cyang@leadscope.com
Julie Penzotti, Director, Computational Chemistry, Rational Discovery, ZEBET Acute toxicity database; email: penzotti@rationaldiscovery.com
Marc Nicklaus, Senior Scientist - Computational Chemistry, Chemoinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Design, NIH National Cancer Institute, NCI Public Structure Browser hosting of DSSTox SDF files for structure-searching, contribution of NCI data fields, including IUPAC names; email: mn1@helix.nih.gov
Jay Tunkel, Associate Director, Environmental Science Center, Syracuse Research Corp, structure-searching of DSSTox SDF files; email: tunkel@syrres.com
Antony Williams, (formerly) VP Scientific Development and Marketing, Advanced Chemistry Development (ACD); currently associated with ChemSpider project (June 2007); email: antony.williams@chemspider.com
Tom Harrocks, CEO, Intuitive Software Solutions Inc, SDF Editor documentation
Steve Stein, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Steve Heller, IUPAC/NIST InChI project; contact email: sstein@nist.gov
Alexander Tropsha, Professor & Acting Dept. Chair, UNC-CH School of Pharmacology, Chapel Hill, NC; email: tropsha@email.unc.edu
Michael Luster, Senior Scientist, Center for Disease Control, NIOSH (IMMTOX); email: myl6@CDC.GOV
Dori Germolec, NIEHS National Toxicology Program, RTP, NC (IMMTOX); email: germolec@niehs.nih.gov
Tudor Oprea, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; email: toprea@salud.unm.edu
Ray Tice, Cynthia Smith, NIEHS National Toxicology Program High Throughput Screening Program (NTPHTS): tice@niehs.nih.gov
Skip Eastin, Beth Bowden, Joe Roycroft, NIEHS National Toxicology Program Bioassay On-line Database (NTPBSI): bowden1@niehs.nih.gov
Gillian Backus, US EPA's National Center for Exposure Assessment, IRIS Workgroup (IRISTR): backus.gillian@epa.gov
EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology: ToxCast group
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Advisors:
Persons other than collaborators who have inspired, advised, and supported
this effort, and others who have provided assistance with quality
review of documentation, databases, or website content.
Romualdo Benigni, Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy; email: rbenigni@iss.it
Christoph Helma, In-Silico Toxicology,
Freiburg, Germany; email: helma@in-silico.de
William Welsh, Director Bioinformatics Institute, Robert Wood Johnson
Medical School, UMDNJ, Piscataway, NJ; email: welshwj@umdnj.edu
Susan Bassett, former President, Bioreason, Santa Fe, NM
Dale Johnson, Chiron, Inc; email: dale_johnson@chiron.com
Ed Thompson, retired, formerly Director of Genetic Toxicology, Proctor & Gamble; initial demonstration product of structure-searchable relational
database for genetic toxicology was early inspiration for this effort
EPA technical advisors and QA reviewers:
Denise Sailstad
Ralph Smialowicz
Carl Blackman
David DeMarini
Rob Dewoskin
Brian Garges
Tom Hughes
Stephen Little
Velva Milholland
Leonard Mole
Chandrika Moudgal
Stephen Nesnow
Russell Owen
Julian Preston
Susan Richardson
Ron Rogers
Patricia Schmieder
Pauline Wagner
Douglas Wolf
Keith Houck
Woody Setzer
Gillian Backus
Richard Judson
Outside technical advisors, QA reviewers, Error Reports:
Patricia de Cerqueira Lima, UNC-CH, School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC
M.Karthikeyan, UNC-CH, School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC
Matthew Clark, Locus Pharmaceuticals, Blue Bell, PA
Andreas Karwath, Inst. for Computer Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
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