Bitter or not? BitterPredict, a tool for predicting taste from chemical structure

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Dagan Wiener, Ayana ^a   Nissim, Ido ^a   Ben Abu, Natalie ^a   Borgonovo, Gigliola ^b   Bassoli, Angela ^b   Niv, Masha Y ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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EID: 85029893239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12359-7     Document Type: Article

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