Environmental Bioinformatics Knowledge Base

Knowledge Source Identification
Knowledge source name Environmental Bioinformatics Knowledge Base
Abbreviated name ebKB
Owner/Developer Computational Chemodynamics Laboratory
Abbreviated owner CCL
Country United States of America
Languages English
URL http://ebkb.org/
Contact email panosg@ccl.rutgers.edu
Description The Environmental Bioinformatics Knowledge Base evaluates, assembles, organizes, and provides information on resources that support the computational representation and analysis of environmental and biological systems and of their interactions. These resources span the fields of Cheminformatics, Enviroinformatics and Bioinformatics as well as of Computational Toxicology, Exposure and Risk Analysis, and Pattern Recognition and Analysis. Overall goal of ebKB is to facilitate and enhance mechanistic assessments of human and ecological health risks associated with exposures to environmental stressors.
Knowledge Source Category
Category Information System
Sub categories Knowledge-base
Knowledge Dissemination and Sharing
Dissemination channel Website
Targeted audience (specified/objective analysis) Researchers
Users access Open access
Knowledge Characterization
3Rs relevance Replacement, Reduction
Purpose Documentation and information
Technology/Tools Non-testing methods (in silico)