Human olfactory receptor responses to odorants
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Human olfactory receptor responses to odorants
Although the human olfactory system is capable of discriminating a vast number of odors, we do not currently understand what chemical features are encoded by olfactory receptors. In large part this is due to a paucity of data in a search space covering the interactions of hundreds of receptors with billions of odorous molecules. Of the approximately 400 intact human odorant receptors, only 10% ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Scientific Data
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2052-4463
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.2