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Exploring Molecular Odor Taxonomies for Structure-based Odor Predictions using Machine Learning
Akshay Sajan, Stijn Sluis, Reza Haydarlou, Sanne Abeln, Pasquale Lisena, Raphael Troncy, Caro Verbeek, Inger Leemans, Halima Mouhib
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09217

Exploring Molecular Odor Taxonomies for Structure-based Odor Predictions using Machine Learning
One of the key challenges to predict odor from molecular structure is unarguably our limited understanding of the odor space and the complexity of the underlying structure-odor relationships. Here, we show that the predictive performance of machine learning models for structure-based odor predictions can be improved using both, an expert and a data-driven odor taxonomy. The expert taxonomy is based on semantic and perceptual similarities, while the data-driven taxonomy is based on clustering co…

We arrived home from Tennessee late last night. 🎉
Very noticeable, was a foul and mysterious odor outside, of which we reasoned that some poor critter had crawled under the deck and died.
There was a rotting board I'd missed last year when I replaced the others on the deck, so I pried it off and found a :possum:
The summer heat was doing it no favors and even wearing a mask, I still suffered from the stench. 🤢
Now I'm researching how to gather it up safely. T…

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