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Estimating the Size of the Olfactory Repertoire

✍ Scribed by Liran Carmel; David Harel; Doron Lancet

Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
239 KB
Volume
63
Category
Article
ISSN
1522-9602

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✦ Synopsis

The concept of shape space, which has been successfully implemented in immunology, is used here to construct a model for the discrimination power of the olfactory system. Using reasonable assumptions on the behaviour of the biological system, we are able to estimate the number of distinct olfactory receptor types. Our estimated value of around 1000 receptor types is in good agreement with experimental data.

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