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A semantic-based community model for high-fidelity tuning of olfactory mixture distances / PNAS / '26

Crowdsources predictive models across 26 international teams in the DREAM Olfactory Challenge, demonstrating that compact semantic representations of single odorants generalize to complex mixture perceptual spaces.

Vahid Satarifard, Laura Sisson, Yikun Han, Pedro Ilídio, Matej Hladiš, Maxence Lalis, Xuebo Song, Tiffany Yang, Wenjie Yin, Aharon Ravia, CiCi Xingyu Zheng, Gaia Andreoletti, Jake Albrecht, Robert Pellegrino, Zehua Wang, Stephen Yang, Robbe Dh́ondt, Achilleas Ghinis, Stijn Vranckx, Yue Hu, Jiacheng Chen, Liangzhen Pan, Siyuan Chen, Jianing Tang, Jianming Tang, Menglong Dong, Yang Liu, Qian Shen, Yuan Yuan, Ping Li, Jiazhen He, Min Zhang, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Joel D. Mainland, Richard C. Gerkin, Pablo Meyer
olfaction datacentric-ai mixtures #ai

Artificial intelligence for food innovation / Nature Food / '26

Comprehensive review articulating an AI-driven framework for sustainable food formulation, spanning perception modeling, multi-omics fermentation engineering, and consumer acceptance.

Bianca Datta, Markus J. Buehler, Yvonne Chow, Kristina Gligorić, Dan Jurafsky, David L. Kaplan, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Giorgia Del Missier, Lisa Neidhardt, Karim Pichara, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Miek Schlangen, Skyler R. St. Pierre, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Anna Thomas, Matthew Watson, Ellen Kuhl
olfaction proteins datacentric-ai #reviews #ai

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