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In structure-based drug design, accurately estimating the binding affinity between a candidate ligand and its protein receptor is a central challenge. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning, have demonstrated…

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Binding affinity optimization is crucial in early-stage drug discovery. While numerous machine learning methods exist for predicting ligand potency, their comparative efficacy remains unclear. This study evaluates the performance of…

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Predicting drug-target interaction (DTI) is critical in the drug discovery process. Despite remarkable advances in recent DTI models through the integration of representations from diverse drug and target encoders, such models often…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Zhaohan Meng , Zaiqiao Meng , Ke Yuan , Iadh Ounis

Computational models that accurately predict the binding affinity of an input protein-chemical pair can accelerate drug discovery studies. These models are trained on available protein-chemical interaction datasets, which may contain…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-10 Rıza Özçelik , Alperen Bağ , Berk Atıl , Melih Barsbey , Arzucan Özgür , Elif Özkırımlı

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinities is an essential challenge in structure-based drug design. Despite recent advances in data-driven methods for affinity prediction, their accuracy is still limited, partially because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Yaosen Min , Ye Wei , Peizhuo Wang , Xiaoting Wang , Han Li , Nian Wu , Stefan Bauer , Shuxin Zheng , Yu Shi , Yingheng Wang , Ji Wu , Dan Zhao , Jianyang Zeng

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction plays a crucial role in drug discovery, and deep learning approaches have achieved state-of-the-art performance in this field. We introduce an ensemble of deep learning models (EnsembleDLM) for DTI…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Po-Yu Kao , Shu-Min Kao , Nan-Lan Huang , Yen-Chu Lin

Accurate prediction of drug-target binding affinity can accelerate drug discovery by prioritizing promising compounds before costly wet-lab screening. While deep learning has advanced this task, most models fuse ligand and protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Mohammadsaleh Refahi , Bahrad A. Sokhansanj , James R. Brown , Gail Rosen

Accurate prediction of drug-target interaction (DTI) is essential for in silico drug design. For the purpose, we propose a novel approach for predicting DTI using a GNN that directly incorporates the 3D structure of a protein-ligand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Jaechang Lim , Seongok Ryu , Kyubyong Park , Yo Joong Choe , Jiyeon Ham , Woo Youn Kim

Computer-Aided Drug Discovery research has proven to be a promising direction in drug discovery. In recent years, Deep Learning approaches have been applied to problems in the domain such as Drug-Target Interaction Prediction and have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Brighter Agyemang , Wei-Ping Wu , Michael Y. Kpiebaareh , Ebenezer Nanor

Drug-target binding affinity prediction plays an important role in the early stages of drug discovery, which can infer the strength of interactions between new drugs and new targets. However, the performance of previous computational models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xinxing Yang , Genke Yang , Jian Chu

Motivation: Drug discovery demands rapid quantification of compound-protein interaction (CPI). However, there is a lack of methods that can predict compound-protein affinity from sequences alone with high applicability, accuracy, and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-17 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Accurate prediction of drug-target interactions is critical for advancing drug discovery. By reducing time and cost, machine learning and deep learning can accelerate this laborious discovery process. In a novel approach, BarlowDTI, we…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-15 Maximilian G. Schuh , Davide Boldini , Annkathrin I. Bohne , Stephan A. Sieber

Accurate prediction of drug-target interactions (DTI) is crucial for drug discovery. Recently, deep learning (DL) models for show promising performance for DTI prediction. However, these models can be difficult to use for both computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kexin Huang , Tianfan Fu , Lucas Glass , Marinka Zitnik , Cao Xiao , Jimeng Sun

Predicting drug-target interactions (DTI) via reliable computational methods is an effective and efficient way to mitigate the enormous costs and time of the drug discovery process. Structure-based drug similarities and sequence-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Bin Liu , Konstantinos Pliakos , Celine Vens , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Drug target binding affinity (DTA) is a key criterion for drug screening. Existing experimental methods are time-consuming and rely on limited structural and domain information. While learning-based methods can model sequence and structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xi Xiao , Wentao Wang , Jiacheng Xie , Lijing Zhu , Gaofei Chen , Zhengji Li , Tianyang Wang , Min Xu

Efficient and effective drug-target binding affinity (DTBA) prediction is a challenging task due to the limited computational resources in practical applications and is a crucial basis for drug screening. Inspired by the good representation…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-15 Shuke Zhang , Yanzhao Jin , Tianmeng Liu , Qi Wang , Zhaohui Zhang , Shuliang Zhao , Bo Shan

Computational drug discovery provides an efficient tool helping large scale lead molecules screening. One of the major tasks of lead discovery is identifying molecules with promising binding affinities towards a target, a protein in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Liangzhen Zheng , Jingrong Fan , Yuguang Mu

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is of vital importance in early-stage drug discovery, facilitating the identification of drugs that can effectively interact with specific targets and regulate their activities. While wet…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Qizhi Pei , Lijun Wu , Jinhua Zhu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Haiguang Liu , Tie-Yan Liu , Rui Yan

Prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is a major goal in drug discovery. Generally, free energy gap is calculated between two states (e.g., ligand binding and unbinding). The energy gap implicitly includes the effects of changes in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-20 Ikki Yasuda , Katsuhiro Endo , Eiji Yamamoto , Yoshinori Hirano , Kenji Yasuoka

Predicting the interaction between a compound and a target is crucial for rapid drug repurposing. Deep learning has been successfully applied in drug-target affinity (DTA) problem. However, previous deep learning-based methods ignore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Tri Minh Nguyen , Thin Nguyen , Thao Minh Le , Truyen Tran