e-Sweet: A machine-learning based platform for the prediction of sweetener and its relative sweetness

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2019, Pages

  Zheng, Suqing ^a   Chang, Wenping ^a   Xu, Wenxin ^a   Xu, Yong ^b   Lin, Fu ^a  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH   (China)

Author keywords

Machine learning method; QSAR; Relative sweetness prediction; Sweet taste; Sweetener prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061184385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2019.00035     Document Type: Article

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