Patent ID: 7374878

Claim:
A method for representing sensory perception of one or more odorants comprising: (a) providing a representative class of n olfactory receptors or ligand-binding domains thereof; (b) measuring X 1 to X n representative of at least one activity of the one or more odorants selected from the group consisting of binding of the one or more odorants to the ligand-binding domain of at least one of the n olfactory receptors, activating at least one of the n olfactory receptors with the one or more odorants, and blocking at least one of the n olfactory receptors with the one or more odorants: and (c) generating a representation of sensory perception from the values X 1 to X n wherein at least one of the n olfactory receptors has the amino acid sequence contained in SEQ ID NO: 55.