e-Bitter: Bitterant prediction by the consensus voting from the machine-learning methods

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2018, Pages

  Zheng, Suqing ^a   Jiang, Mengying ^a   Zhao, Chengwei ^a   Zhu, Rui ^a   Hu, Zhicheng ^a   Xu, Yong ^b   Lin, Fu ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

Author keywords

Bitter taste; Bitterant prediction; Classification; Machine learning; QSAR; Taste prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047466572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00082     Document Type: Article

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