The invention disclosed herewith is a computer-implemented method for evaluating the
toxicity of chemical compounds. In particular, some embodiments of the invention comprise importing
microarray data representing measurements of the
RNA transcription from hepatocytes, and running at least one
algorithm (such as a coefficient penalized
linear regression algorithm) on the imported data to assess potential adverse
drug effects. After the evaluation has been carried out, the results are exported to reports or databases.In some embodiments of the invention, the
algorithm has been trained on reference data using
machine learning techniques.In some embodiments of the invention, the evaluation of
toxicity is carried out concurrently with the evaluation of
efficacy, where it can be used to assess the
clinical value of the compounds evaluated.In some embodiments of the invention, the evaluation of
toxicity is inserted into a pharmaceutical evaluation process prior to expensive testing of toxicity in animals.