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The AquaTox-Predictor, a multitask, multimodal deep learning framework integrating molecular fingerprints and graphs, predicts aquatic ecotoxicities with higher accuracy than existing methods while identifying key molecular substructures for interpretability. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To develop and validate AquaTox-Predictor, an interpretable multitask multimodal deep learning framework for predicting seven aquatic ecotoxicity endpoints across diverse chemical compounds.

September 8, 2026Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

AquaTox-Predictor: An MMoE-Enhanced Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Aquatic Ecotoxicity Prediction

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JZJingwei ZhangEast China University of Science and Technology LXLe XiongEast China University of Science and Technology FPFei PanChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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Computational study demonstrates superior aquatic ecotoxicity prediction for environmental chemicals, highlighting the utility of multitask multimodal models in ecological safety assessment.

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To develop and validate AquaTox-Predictor, an interpretable multitask multimodal deep learning framework for predicting seven aquatic ecotoxicity endpoints across diverse chemical compounds.
Combined molecular fingerprints and molecular graph representations within a deep learning architecture.
Integrated a Multi-gate Mixture-of-Experts (MMoE) framework to manage and predict seven distinct aquatic ecotoxicity classification tasks.
Evaluated performance on validation datasets using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and analyzed model interpretability through substructure identification.
AquaTox-Predictor achieved the highest average AUC across validation sets, yielding an improvement of up to 5.75% over existing baseline approaches.
The model successfully identified key molecular substructures responsible for toxic properties and characterized relationships across distinct ecotoxicity endpoints.

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Zhang et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd82058e84d0ff5b476ad https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.6c02770

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Computational study demonstrates superior aquatic ecotoxicity prediction for environmental chemicals, highlighting the utility of multitask multimodal models in ecological safety assessment.

AquaTox-Predictor: An MMoE-Enhanced Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Aquatic Ecotoxicity Prediction

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AquaTox-Predictor: An MMoE-Enhanced Multimodal Deep Learning Framework for Aquatic Ecotoxicity Prediction

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