BitterSweet: Building machine learning models for predicting the bitter and sweet taste of small molecules

Scientific Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Tuwani, Rudraksh ^a   Wadhwa, Somin ^a   Bagler, Ganesh ^a  

^a INDRAPRASTHA INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; PREDICTION; SOFTWARE; SWEETNESS;

EID: 85065466182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43664-y     Document Type: Article

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