Building a tree of knowledge: Analysis of bitter molecules

Chemical Senses

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 547-557

  Rodgers, Sarah ^a   Busch, Johanneke ^a   Peters, Hans ^a   Christ Hazelhof, Elly ^a  

^a UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bitter; Molecular similarity; Phylogenetic like tree; R tables; Structure activity relationships; Taste

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TASTE;

EID: 24944559010     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bji048     Document Type: Article

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