Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7 (NIPS 1994)
Rainer Malaka, Thomas Ragg, Martin Hammer
A new model for chemosensory reception is presented. It models reacti(cid:173) ons between odor molecules and receptor proteins and the activation of second messenger by receptor proteins. The mathematical formulation of the reaction kinetics is transformed into an artificial neural network (ANN). The resulting feed-forward network provides a powerful means for parameter fitting by applying learning algorithms. The weights of the network corresponding to chemical parameters can be trained by presen(cid:173) ting experimental data. We demonstrate the simulation capabilities of the model with experimental data from honey bee chemosensory neurons. It can be shown that our model is sufficient to rebuild the observed data and that simpler models are not able to do this task.