ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2019
Is It Possible to Predict the Odor of a Molecule on the Basis of its Structure?
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Does Olfactory Training Improve Brain Function and Cognition? A Systematic Review.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Odor-Sight: An Interpretable Graph Neural Network Web Platform for Prediction of Odorant Activity.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026Article
- Decoding odor responses: universal patterns and individual signatures in psychophysiology using nonlinear models.Chemical senses · 2026Article
- Molecular simulation-based 3D structural construction of olfactory receptor with agonist binding.Journal of computer-aided molecular design · 2025Article
- Advances in predicting human olfactory perception: from data acquisition to computational models.RSC advances · 2025Review
- Effect of Phenolic Compounds and Terpenes on the Flavour and Functionality of Plant-Based Foods.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Molecular Odor Prediction Using Olfactory Receptor Information.Molecular informatics · 2025Article
- A dataset of laymen olfactory perception for 74 mono-molecular odors.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Common scents? A review of potentially shared chemical signals in the order Carnivora.Chemical senses · 2025Review
- Genetic investigations into the use of sensory evaluation: the case of boar taint discrimination in Pietrain sired crossbreds.Journal of animal science · 2025Article
- Interpretable multitask deep learning models for odor perception based on molecular structure.Current research in food science · 2025Article
- Odor prediction of whiskies based on their molecular composition.Communications chemistry · 2024Article
- Classification of substances by health hazard using deep neural networks and molecular electron densities.Journal of cheminformatics · 2024Article
- Juglone triggers apoptosis of non-small cell lung cancer through the reactive oxygen species -mediated PI3K/Akt pathway.PloS one · 2024Article
- Combining the Classification and Pharmacophore Approaches to Understand Homogeneous Olfactory Perceptions at Peripheral Level: Focus on Two Aroma Mixtures.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- OWSum: algorithmic odor prediction and insight into structure-odor relationships.Journal of cheminformatics · 2023Article
- A Perspective on Explanations of Molecular Prediction Models.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2023Review
- Restructuring of olfactory representations in the fly brain around odor relationships in natural sources.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The Luminescence Hypothesis of Olfaction.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Investigation of the structure-odor relationship using a Transformer model.Journal of cheminformatics · 2022Article
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Abstract
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-coupled receptors' role in olfactory cells, they highlighted the importance of olfaction to the scientific community. Several theories have tried to explain how cells are able to distinguish such a wide variety of odorant molecules in a complex context in which enantiomers can result in completely different perceptions and structurally different molecules. Moreover, sex, age, cultural origin, and individual differences contribute to odor perception variations that complicate the picture. In this article, recent advances in olfaction theory are presented, and future trends in human olfaction such as structure-based odor prediction and artificial sniffing are discussed at the frontiers of chemistry, physiology, neurobiology, and machine learning.
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