Comparing the Information Content of Two Large Olfactory Databases

The expert's subjectivity in establishing an olfactory description can produce wide discrepancies in different databases listing the odor profile of identical compounds. A representative example is obtained by comparing the odorous compounds included in the “Perfumery Materials and Performance...

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Published in:Journal of chemical information and modeling 2006-01, Vol.46 (1), p.32-38
Main Authors: Pintore, Marco, Wechman, Christophe, Sicard, Gilles, Chastrette, Maurice, Amaury, Nicolas, Chretien, Jacques R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classification
Comparative analysis
Mathematical models
Odors
Smell
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Summary:The expert's subjectivity in establishing an olfactory description can produce wide discrepancies in different databases listing the odor profile of identical compounds. A representative example is obtained by comparing the odorous compounds included in the “Perfumery Materials and Performance 2001” (PMP2001) database and in Arctander's books (1960 and 1969). To better assess this problem, classification models obtained by using the adaptive fuzzy partition method were established on subsets of these databases distributed into the same olfactory classes. The robustness and the prediction power of these models give a powerful criterion for evaluating the “quality” of their information content and for deciding which is the most trustable database.
ISSN:1549-9596
1549-960X
DOI:10.1021/ci0502505