Chemical features mining provides new descriptive structure-odor relationships.

ABSTRACT: An important goal in researching the biology of olfaction is to link the perception of smells to the chemistry of odorants. In other words, why do some odorants smell like fruits and others like flowers? While the so-called stimulus-percept issue was resolved in the field of color vision some time ago, the relationship between the chemistry and psycho-biology of odors remains unclear up to the present day. Although a series of investigations have demonstrated that this relationship exists, the descriptive and explicative aspects of the proposed models that are currently in use require greater sophistication. One reason for this is that the algorithms of current models do not consistently consider the possibility that multiple chemical rules can describe a single quality despite the fact th

SUBMITTER: Licon CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504111 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature