Predicting odor perceptual similarity from odor structure.

To understand the brain mechanisms of olfaction we must understand the rules that govern the link between odorant structure and odorant perception. Natural odors are in fact mixtures made of many molecules, and there is currently no method to look at the molecular structure of such odorant-mixtures...

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Main Authors: Kobi Snitz, Adi Yablonka, Tali Weiss, Idan Frumin, Rehan M Khan, Noam Sobel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3772038?pdf=render