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What a mechanism read returns

You send a standard ion-channel panel and a free Cmax. The read returns ranked ion-current mechanisms, a TdP-risk class, a dose-response, and the one experiment that would confirm the cause. It also states, in writing, the scope of each part.

The read is two runs of the same model. The forward half applies static Hill block to the model's conductances at 1x, 2x, 3x and 4x free Cmax, simulates the action potential, and reports APD90. A frozen pair of thresholds turns the largest fractional change into one of three TdP classes. The inverse half throws away the known panel, takes only the resulting action-potential shape, and searches 1,560 conductance hypotheses over six currents for the ones that reproduce that shape, then names which hypotheses it can tell apart.

What comes back

the risk score uses three currents

The three-class score is driven by hERG/IKr, Cav1.2/ICaL and peak Nav1.5/INa. IKs, IK1, Ito and late sodium are read and reported; the scored simulation uses the first three. The inverse search is wider, over six currents. Late sodium stays out of both, because the Kernik-Clancy formulation carries no distinct INaL current. That absence decides some cases.

The scope of a read

stated limits
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Four public compounds are read end to end on this site, with two wrong answers shown in full. Read them. Then send one compound of yours, free, for the same report format. What a free read covers.

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Pipeline as run for the reads page and the frozen CiPA validation (T-151, 2026-07-03). Model: Kernik-Clancy 2019 human iPSC-CM (doi.org/10.1113/JP277724) integrated with Myokit/CVODE.
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