Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Contribution of Information Technologies in Marine and Freshwater Toxins Research and Regulatory Practice
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine and Freshwater Toxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 1964
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine biotoxins; phycotoxins; harmful algal blooms; toxic pufferfish; emerging marine toxins; tetrodotoxins; ciguatoxins; lipophilic toxins; toxic episodes management; phycotoxins regulatory monitoring; marine toxins analysis; mouse bioassay; liquid chromatography mass spectrometry
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Interests: plankton; benthos; cyanotoxins; biodiversity; taxonomy; phylogeny and ecology of continental algae; water quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The overwhelming penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in everyday life, more intensely evidenced during the past decade, is globally transforming our daily working practices, while at the same time reshaping our social interactions. Digital tools, including the Internet, social media, mobile computing, big data, business analytics, the Internet of Things, 3D printing, cloud and cyber-solutions, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, and numerous others, open up a fascinating world of innovation opportunities with a significant impact on multiple aspects of contemporary societies, including research and regulatory practices in natural scientific fields such as marine and freshwater toxins.
This Special Issue aims to focus on new developments concerning the exploitation of ICTs in the field of marine and freshwater toxins research and regulatory practice, including topics such as (but not limited to): (i) use of ICTs in HABs and relevant toxins’ prediction and monitoring and decision-making (e.g., business intelligence tools, specialized apps); (ii) improvements in analysis methods for toxins’ determination related to ICTs (e.g., smartphone applications, toxins databases, machine learning, open data and open source software contributions, etc.); (iii) advances in risk analysis tasks (assessment, management, communication) related to the use of ICTs; (iv) use of ICT tools in elucidating toxins’ epidemiology and impact on public health (social media, data mining, language technologies); and (v) ICTs usage in the production of HAB toxin reference materials (e.g., artificial intelligence, neural networks, etc.). Studies addressing any other questions of relevance or reviews related to ICTs contribution in marine and freshwater toxins research and regulatory practice are also considered to be of interest and welcome for submission.
Dr. Panagiota Katikou
Prof. Dr. Marina Aboal
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- information and communication technologies (ICTs)
- digital tools
- social media
- open data
- databases
- data mining
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- marine toxins
- freshwater toxins
- harmful algal blooms (HABs)
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