Is It Possible to Predict the Odor of a Molecule on the Basis of its Structure?

M Genva, T Kenne Kemene, M Deleu, L Lins… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The olfactory sense is the dominant sensory perception for many animals. When Richard
Axel and Linda B. Buck received the Nobel Prize in 2004 for discovering the G protein …

DoOR 2.0 - Comprehensive Mapping of Drosophila melanogaster Odorant Responses

D Münch, CG Galizia - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Odors elicit complex patterns of activated olfactory sensory neurons. Knowing the complete
olfactome, ie the responses in all sensory neurons for all relevant odorants, is desirable to …

The perceptual logic of smell

L Secundo, K Snitz, N Sobel - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•Molecular and anatomical data imply high dimensionality in olfactory perception.•
Psychophysics uncover low dimensionality in olfactory perception.•Physicochemical odor …

Implausibility of the vibrational theory of olfaction

E Block, S Jang, H Matsunami… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The vibrational theory of olfaction assumes that electron transfer occurs across odorants at
the active sites of odorant receptors (ORs), serving as a sensitive measure of odorant …

Smell compounds classification using UMAP to increase knowledge of odors and molecular structures linkages

M Rugard, T Jaylet, O Taboureau, A Tromelin… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This study aims to highlight the relationships between the structure of smell compounds and
their odors. For this purpose, heterogeneous data sources were screened, and 6038 …

Odorant receptors of Drosophila are sensitive to the molecular volume of odorants

M Saberi, H Seyed-Allaei - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Which properties of a molecule define its odor? This is a basic yet unanswered question
regarding the olfactory system. The olfactory system of Drosophila has a repertoire of …

Use of machine learning to identify novel, behaviorally active antagonists of the insect odorant receptor co-receptor (Orco) subunit

D Kepchia, P Xu, R Terryn, A Castro, SC Schürer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Olfaction is a key component of the multimodal approach used by mosquitoes to target and
feed on humans, spreading various diseases. Current repellents have drawbacks …

A spiking neural network model of self-organized pattern recognition in the early mammalian olfactory system

BA Kaplan, A Lansner - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Olfactory sensory information passes through several processing stages before an odor
percept emerges. The question how the olfactory system learns to create odor …

Sequence-based prediction of olfactory receptor responses

S Chepurwar, A Gupta, R Haddad, N Gupta - Chemical senses, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Computational prediction of how strongly an olfactory receptor (OR) responds to various
odors can help in bridging the widening gap between the large number of receptors that …

The Monte Carlo method as a tool to build up predictive QSPR/QSAR

AA Toropov, AP Toropova - Current Computer-Aided Drug …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: The Monte Carlo method has a wide application in various scientific
researches. For the development of predictive models in a form of the quantitative structure …