VEGA lives because it is based on sponsors, supporters, developers and evaluators.
The developers are involved in the continuous improvement of the platform, also on the basis of the feed-back and comments from the evaluators, which use and check the platform.
Developers
Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS.
The Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, headed by Dr Emilio Benfenati, has coordinated 15 EC funded projects and participated to other 18, many of them on QSAR.
Istituto Mario Negri is the coordinator of the VEGA project.
Politecnico di Milano
Department of Electronics and Information
The group headed by Prof Giuseppina Gini has coordinated the EC funded projects EST on hybrid systems for QSAR. It has also participated to many EC funded projects, developing and using QSAR models.
Politecnico di Milano provided a model for mutagenicity and the SARpy software.
The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera)
Fera is an Executive Agency of the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and has over 900 highly qualified staff and state-of-the-art R&D facilities. Fera scientists are also active members of various UK and EU committees, and are influential in providing scientific input to support policy and regulatory decisions. The QSAR team at Fera, headed by Dr. Qasim Chaudhry, has participated in a number of projects on assessment of data quality, and development and application of regulatory QSAR models.
FERA contributed to the development of the CAESAR models.
KnowledgeMiner
For more than 15 years KnowledgeMiner Software creates knowledge mining tools that enable anyone to use data modeling to quickly visualize new possibilities. It has been doing research and consulting in several fields. One of these fields it has been active in more intensely is about modeling and prediction of toxicological and ecotoxicological hazards and risks of chemical compounds also for regulatory purposes with the goal to substitute and minimize still widely used animal tests by computer models.
KnowledgeMiner provided the tool for the sensitivity evaluation included in the Applicability Domain.
KODE
Kode is a young scientific consultancy company working in the field of data science, composed of experts in several fields: multivariate statistics, data mining, chemometrics and chemoinformatics. Besides providing consultancy services to companies and authorities, they focus on the design and development of innovative software tools for QSARs and other chemoinformatic applications. They have been part of the development team of the VEGA stand-alone application.
Kode is the main responsible for the implementation of the models within VEGA and the main developer of stand alone version.