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Environmental agencies can now predict whether a chemical will biodegrade before it is even manufactured, according to a Spanish researcher.
London, June 11 : Environmental agencies can now predict whether a chemical will biodegrade before it is even manufactured, according to a Spanish researcher.
Dr. Victor de Lorenzo and his team at the National Centre for Biotechnology in Madrid, Spain have developed software that can distinguish biodegradable molecules from those that resist degradation, based on a database of known microbial metabolic reactions.
By focusing on groups of three atoms known as atomic triads, the software can predict biodegradability for around 80 per cent of all compounds.
"The production of new chemicals is outstripping our ability to assess how each one will be broken down by micro-organisms. The last 50 years have produced data on only 900 chemicals. There are tens of thousands for which there is no data," New Scientist quoted Dr. Lorenzo as saying.
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