Myco’Simulator description

This innovative App is the result of an important scientific review that permits to characterise physico-chemical differences of mycotoxins. Myco’Simulator allows to display the 6 major mycotoxins in 3D, to compare them and to access information about their physico-chemical characteristics and toxicity in animals. Based on scientific reviews, the App also permits to simulate the adsorption of mycotoxins by the major adsorbents. The App is a unique interactive tool to easily visualize mycotoxin complex conformations and interactions. This App is divided into 2 major sections.

Mycotoxin section: This section permits to visualize the 6 major mycotoxins: T-2 (T-2 toxin), DON (deoxynivalenol), FB1 (fumonisin B1), ZEA (zearalenone), AFB1 (aflatoxin B1) and OTA (ochratoxin A). For each mycotoxin, a 3D representation of the mycotoxin is available. It is also possible to animate the mycotoxin to visualize the different possible movements of each mycotoxin (conformation), to rotate and to zoom in or zoom out the mycotoxin. It is possible to simultaneously visualise 2 mycotoxins to compare them. For each mycotoxin, some information on its origin (fungal source), structure, effects on animals (swine, dairy and poultry) and level of toxicity is available.

Adsorbent section: This section permits to visualize mycotoxin interactions with selected adsorbents (clay, yeast cell wall and Olmix technology). The structure of each adsorbent is represented according to their physico-chemical characteristics. Each of the 6 mycotoxins presented in the previous section can be dragged inside each adsorbent to visualize possible interactions. The Olmix technology is also presented in a very short 3D video that permits to understand the technology structure.