BitterDB is a free repository of bitter molecules. It contains information on compounds that were documented to taste bitter to humans or to activate bitter taste receptors in-vitro.
To cite BitterDB, please reference:
BitterDB: a database of bitter compounds.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Wiener A, Shudler M, Levit A, Niv MY.
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Information about activation of human bitter taste receptors by bitter molecules can be found in BitterDB as described in the above paper, and for example by using this link: http://bitterdb.agri.huji.ac.il/bitterdb/dbbitter.php#receptorBrowse
We are grateful to the authors for allowing us to incorporate the molecular structrues of this database in ZINC.We assess the chemical diversity of a subset by clustering the molecules. First, we sort ligands by increasing molecular weight. Then, we use the SUBSET 1.0 algorithm ( Voigt JH, Bienfait B, Wang S, Nicklaus MC. JCICS, 2001, 41, 702-12) to progressively select compounds that differ from those previously selected by at least the Tanimoto cutoff, using ChemAxon default fingerprints. The resulting representatives have two interesting properties:
Tanimoto Cutoff Level | 60% | 70% | 80% | 90% | 100% |
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Number of Representatives | 185 | 250 | 303 | 369 | 545 |
We compute the physical properties of each molecule in the subset, and graph them below.
Download Calculated Physical Properties
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