Revealing Chemical Trends: Insights from Data-Driven Visualization and Patent Analysis in Exposomics Research.

Understanding historical chemical usage is crucial for assessing current and past impacts on human health and the environment and for informing future regulatory decisions. However, past monitoring data are often limited in scope and number of chemicals, while suitable sample types are not always available for remeasurement. Data-driven cheminformatics methods for patent and literature data offer several opportunities to fill this gap.