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AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0: Data Model Expansions and Content Evaluation Framework for Using Agentic AI to Improve Integration between AOPs and New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)

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keywords Adverse Outcome PathwaysAOP-WikiData Model ExpansionNew Approach MethodologiesAgentic AIRegulatory ScienceFAIR PrinciplesQuantitative AOPs
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AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0 expands the data model to support agentic AI integration of adverse outcome pathways with new approach methodologies.

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The paper presents AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0 as a concrete prototype that expands the data model of the global repository for adverse outcome pathways. Current constraints in the existing data model and infrastructure limit continued AOP growth and evolution. The expansions target internal quality improvement, evidence structuring to boost FAIRness and AI-readiness, and tighter links between AOPs and NAMs. A sympathetic reader would care because AOPs help contextualize lab and computer-based alternatives to animal testing, and this change could advance their use in regulatory science plus biomedical and One Health applications. The work lays groundwork for AI to generate AOPs and produce quantitative versions of them.

Core claim

AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0 concretely demonstrates data model expansions and the vision for transforming the AOP-Wiki to better serve regulatory science and emergent use of AOPs in biomedical and One Health contexts. It focuses on solutions for AOP-Wiki internal quality improvement, evidence structuring to enhance AOP FAIRness and AI-readiness, and improved integration between the AOP framework and NAMs to better serve next generation risk assessment, while laying a foundation to support computationally-generated AOPs and quantitative AOPs.

What carries the argument

EMOD 3.0 data model expansions that enable quality improvement, evidence structuring for FAIRness and AI-readiness, and AOP-NAM integration.

If this is right

  • Supports computationally-generated AOPs.
  • Enables quantitative AOPs.
  • Improves AOP-Wiki internal quality and evidence structuring.
  • Enhances AOP FAIRness and AI-readiness.
  • Strengthens integration between AOPs and NAMs for next-generation risk assessment.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The model may allow AI agents to aggregate and structure AOP-relevant information across biological scales more systematically.
  • It could extend multi-scale causal modeling from chemical regulation into broader systems biology applications.
  • Successful adoption might accelerate replacement of animal tests by making NAM data more readily usable within established AOP logic.

Load-bearing premise

Constraints in the current AOP-Wiki data model and application infrastructure limit continued AOP growth and evolution, and the proposed expansions will enable better integration with NAMs and agentic AI without introducing incompatibilities.

What would settle it

After deploying EMOD 3.0, measure whether AI systems can generate valid new AOPs or quantitative AOPs that integrate directly with existing NAM data sets without compatibility failures or loss of causal structure.

read the original abstract

Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOP) are logic models that causally link biological mechanisms that can be measured in a lab to adverse outcomes, relevant to chemical regulatory endpoints. AOPs contextualize new approach methodologies (NAMs), in vitro and in silico methods used as alternatives to animal testing and the sequential events in an AOP serve as multi-scale models spanning biological scales. The AOP-Wiki serves as the global repository for AOPs. While the AOP-Wiki has played a central role in AOP expansion over the past decade, constraints within the current data model and application infrastructure limit the AOP-Wiki from supporting continued AOP growth and evolution. Yet, the transformative power of agentic AI has re-invigorated AOP-Wiki data modernization efforts at a time when core AOP principles can be harnessed to inform use of AI for aggregating and structuring AOP-relevant information. Seizing upon this momentum, we present AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0, the third in a series of evidence model prototypes, which concretely demonstrates data model expansions and our vision for how the AOP-Wiki might be transformed to better serve regulatory science and emergent use of AOPs in biomedical and One Health contexts. We aim to lay a foundation to support computationally-generated AOPs and quantitative AOPs (qAOPs) by focussing on solutions for AOP-Wiki internal quality improvement, evidence structuring to enhance AOP FAIRness and AI-readiness, and improved integration between the AOP framework and NAMs to better serve next generation risk assessment.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0, the third evidence model prototype, which demonstrates data model expansions for the AOP-Wiki repository. It addresses constraints in the current data model and infrastructure to support continued AOP growth, evidence structuring for improved FAIRness and AI-readiness, better integration with New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), and foundations for computationally-generated AOPs and quantitative AOPs (qAOPs) in regulatory science, biomedical, and One Health contexts, leveraging agentic AI.

Significance. If the proposed expansions prove effective and compatible, this work could provide a timely foundation for modernizing the AOP-Wiki to accommodate growing content and emerging AI-driven applications in toxicology and risk assessment. The emphasis on internal quality improvement and NAM integration aligns with current needs in regulatory science, though the absence of empirical validation limits immediate impact assessment.

major comments (2)
  1. [Data model expansions and content evaluation framework] The manuscript describes the EMOD 3.0 data model expansions and vision for AOP-Wiki transformation but does not report results from importing or restructuring existing AOP entries, nor any evaluation of whether new fields preserve causal logic or support quantitative extensions. This is load-bearing for the central claim that the expansions resolve infrastructure constraints and enable NAM/AI integration without incompatibilities.
  2. [Evidence structuring and integration sections] No migration tests or compatibility checks with current AOP-Wiki content are presented, leaving the premise that the changes will be effective and non-disruptive untested. This directly affects the claim that EMOD 3.0 lays a foundation for computationally-generated AOPs and qAOPs.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract outlines goals at a high level but could include one or two concrete examples of new data fields or structures to improve accessibility for readers unfamiliar with AOP-Wiki internals.
  2. [Introduction and methods] Notation for new model elements (e.g., expanded evidence fields) should be defined more explicitly early in the manuscript to avoid ambiguity when discussing AI-readiness and FAIR principles.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thoughtful and constructive review of our manuscript describing AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0. The comments correctly identify the current scope as primarily a design and framework proposal. We address each point below and indicate planned revisions to clarify limitations and strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: The manuscript describes the EMOD 3.0 data model expansions and vision for AOP-Wiki transformation but does not report results from importing or restructuring existing AOP entries, nor any evaluation of whether new fields preserve causal logic or support quantitative extensions. This is load-bearing for the central claim that the expansions resolve infrastructure constraints and enable NAM/AI integration without incompatibilities.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript does not include results from importing or restructuring existing AOP entries or direct evaluations of causal logic preservation. This reflects the manuscript's focus on defining the expanded data model and content evaluation framework as a foundational prototype rather than a completed implementation study. In revision we will add explicit discussion of how the new fields are structured to maintain core AOP causal logic and to accommodate quantitative extensions, along with a clear statement of the evaluation roadmap for future work. This will better contextualize the claims without overstating current empirical coverage. revision: partial

  2. Referee: No migration tests or compatibility checks with current AOP-Wiki content are presented, leaving the premise that the changes will be effective and non-disruptive untested. This directly affects the claim that EMOD 3.0 lays a foundation for computationally-generated AOPs and qAOPs.

    Authors: We concur that migration tests and compatibility checks are absent and would strengthen confidence in non-disruptiveness. The manuscript emphasizes the conceptual design intended to overcome identified infrastructure constraints while supporting future computational and quantitative AOP development. We will revise the evidence structuring and integration sections to include a more detailed description of backward-compatibility considerations and how the framework is intended to enable incremental adoption, thereby clarifying the foundation-laying role without implying completed validation. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; descriptive proposal with no derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper is a forward-looking description of data model expansions for AOP-Wiki EMOD 3.0, including a vision for AI integration and NAM support. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or derivation chains are present that could reduce to inputs by construction. The mention of being the 'third in a series' provides context but does not serve as a load-bearing self-citation for the central claims about expansions or effectiveness. The content stands as an independent proposal without self-definitional loops, renamed results, or ansatz smuggling. This is a normal non-finding for a framework paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The work rests on established domain concepts in AOPs and regulatory science without introducing new physical entities, fitted parameters, or ad-hoc axioms beyond the stated need for modernization.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption AOPs are logic models that causally link biological mechanisms measurable in a lab to adverse outcomes relevant to chemical regulatory endpoints.
    This definition is invoked at the start of the abstract as the foundational concept for the entire framework.
  • domain assumption Constraints within the current data model and application infrastructure limit the AOP-Wiki from supporting continued AOP growth and evolution.
    This premise is stated directly as the motivation for developing EMOD 3.0.

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