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Protein-ligand binding is the process by which a small molecule (drug or inhibitor) attaches to a target protein. Binding affinity, which characterizes the strength of biomolecular interactions, is essential for tackling diverse challenges…

Accurate prediction of protein-ligand binding affinity is critical for drug discovery. While recent deep learning approaches have demonstrated promising results, they often rely solely on structural features of proteins and ligands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Han Liu , Keyan Ding , Peilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Dapeng Wu , Shiqi Wang

Motivation: Predicting Drug-Target Interaction (DTI) is a well-studied topic in bioinformatics due to its relevance in the fields of proteomics and pharmaceutical research. Although many machine learning methods have been successfully…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-14 Haiyang Wang , Guangyu Zhou , Siqi Liu , Jyun-Yu Jiang , Wei Wang

Protein (receptor)--ligand interaction prediction is a critical component in computer-aided drug design, significantly influencing molecular docking and virtual screening processes. Despite the development of numerous scoring functions in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-22 Haoyu Lin , Shiwei Wang , Jintao Zhu , Yibo Li , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

We describe the accurate prediction of ligand-protein interaction (LPI) affinities, also known as drug-target interactions (DTI), with instruction fine-tuned pretrained generative small language models (SLMs). We achieved accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ben Fauber

Identification of drug-target interactions is an indispensable part of drug discovery. While conventional shallow machine learning and recent deep learning methods based on chemogenomic properties of drugs and target proteins have pushed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-05 Yuanyuan Zhang , Yingdong Wang , Chaoyong Wu , Lingmin Zhana , Aoyi Wang , Caiping Cheng , Jinzhong Zhao , Wuxia Zhang , Jianxin Chen , Peng Li

Assessing drug-target affinity is a critical step in the drug discovery and development process, but to obtain such data experimentally is both time consuming and expensive. For this reason, computational methods for predicting binding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Elizaveta Vinogradova , Karina Pats , Ferdinand Molnár , Siamac Fazli

Accurate prediction of Drug-Target Affinity (DTA) is crucial for reducing experimental costs and accelerating early screening in computational drug discovery. While sequence-based deep learning methods avoid reliance on costly 3D…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Minghui Li , Yuanhang Wang , Peijin Guo , Wei Wan , Shengshan Hu , Shengqing Hu

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is a critical component of the drug discovery process. In the drug development engineering field, predicting novel drug-target interactions is extremely crucial.However, although existing methods…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-24 Hongzhi Zhang , Xiuwen Gong , Shirui Pan , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu

Drug combination therapy has become a increasingly promising method in the treatment of cancer. However, the number of possible drug combinations is so huge that it is hard to screen synergistic drug combinations through wet-lab…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 J. Wang , X. Liu , S. Shen , L. Deng , H. Liu*

Empirical scoring functions based on either molecular force fields or cheminformatics descriptors are widely used, in conjunction with molecular docking, during the early stages of drug discovery to predict potency and binding affinity of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Joseph Gomes , Bharath Ramsundar , Evan N. Feinberg , Vijay S. Pande

The protein-ligand binding affinity (PLA) prediction goal is to predict whether or not the ligand could bind to a protein sequence. Recently, in PLA prediction, deep learning has received much attention. Two steps are involved in deep…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Karim Abbasi , Parvin Razzaghi , Amin Ghareyazi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Predicting compound-protein affinity is critical for accelerating drug discovery. Recent progress made by machine learning focuses on accuracy but leaves much to be desired for interpretability. Through molecular contacts underlying…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-01 Mostafa Karimi , Di Wu , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

Accurate drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is essential for computational drug discovery, yet existing models often rely on single-modality predefined molecular descriptors or sequence-based embeddings with limited…

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction plays a very important role in drug development and drug discovery. Biochemical experiments or \textit{in vitro} methods are very expensive, laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, \textit{in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Ratha Pech , Dong Hao , Yan-Li Lee , Maryna Po , Tao Zhou

Cold-start drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction focuses on interaction between novel drugs and proteins. Previous methods typically learn transferable interaction patterns between structures of drug and proteins to tackle it. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ziying Zhang , Yaqing Wang , Yuxuan Sun , Min Ye , Quanming Yao

Accurate prediction of the binding affinity between drugs and target proteins is a core task in computer-aided drug design. Existing deep learning methods tend to ignore the information of internal sub-structural features of drug molecules…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-04 Jiannuo Li , Lan Yao

Consider two sets of entities and their members' mutual affinity values, say drug-target affinities (DTA). Drugs and targets are said to interact in their effects on DTAs if drug's effect on it depends on the target. Presence of interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Tapio Pahikkala , Riikka Numminen , Parisa Movahedi , Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola

Accurate drug target affinity prediction can improve drug candidate selection, accelerate the drug discovery process, and reduce drug production costs. Previous work focused on traditional fingerprints or used features extracted based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Amritpal Singh

Background: In silico drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction plays an integral role in drug repositioning: the discovery of new uses for existing drugs. One popular method of drug repositioning is network-based DTI prediction, which uses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Yiding Lu , Yufan Guo , Anna Korhonen