The SEURAT-1 strategy is to adopt a mode-of-action framework to describe repeated dose toxicity to derive predictions of in vivo toxicity responses. ToxBank is the cross-cluster infrastructure project whose activities include the development of a data warehouse to provide a web-accessible shared repository of research data and protocols.
The SEURAT-1 (Safety Evaluation Ultimately Replacing Animal Testing-1) research cluster is comprised of seven EU FP7 Health projects and is co-financed by Cosmetics Europe. The aim is to generate a proof-of-concept to show how the latest in vitro and in silico technologies, systems toxicology and toxicogenomics can be combined to deliver a test replacement for repeated dose systemic toxicity testing on animals.