cs.AIMay 20, 2026

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)

Authors: Virginia K. HenchJ. Harry CaufieldSierra A. T. MoxonJason M. O'BrienStephen W. Edwards

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.

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