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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

Identifying novel drug-target interactions (DTI) is a critical and rate limiting step in drug discovery. While deep learning models have been proposed to accelerate the identification process, we show that state-of-the-art models fail to…

Drug--target affinity prediction is pivotal for accelerating drug discovery, yet existing methods suffer from significant performance degradation in realistic cold-start scenarios (unseen drugs/targets/pairs), primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zihan Dun , Liuyi Xu , An-Yang Lu , Shuang Li , Yining Qian

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

Accurately determining a change in protein binding affinity upon mutations is important for the discovery and design of novel therapeutics and to assist mutagenesis studies. Determination of change in binding affinity upon mutations…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-01 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Saiqa Andleeb

Predicting drug-target affinity is fundamental to virtual screening and lead optimization. However, existing deep models often suffer from representation collapse in stringent cold-start regimes, where the scarcity of labels and domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Yining Qian , Pengjie Wang , Yixiao Li , An-Yang Lu , Cheng Tan , Shuang Li , Lijun Liu

In silico drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is an important and challenging problem in biomedical research with a huge potential benefit to the pharmaceutical industry and patients. Most existing methods for DTI prediction including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Qingyuan Feng , Evgenia Dueva , Artem Cherkasov , Martin Ester

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

Recently, deep neural network (DNN)-based drug-target interaction (DTI) models were highlighted for their high accuracy with affordable computational costs. Yet, the models' insufficient generalization remains a challenging problem in the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-14 Seokhyun Moon , Wonho Zhung , Soojung Yang , Jaechang Lim , Woo Youn Kim

Drug target interaction (DTI) prediction is a cornerstone of computational drug discovery, enabling rational design, repurposing, and mechanistic insights. While deep learning has advanced DTI modeling, existing approaches primarily rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Feng Jiang , Amina Mollaysa , Hehuan Ma , Tommaso Mansi , Junzhou Huang , Mangal Prakash , Rui Liao

Due to the lack of a method to efficiently represent the multimodal information of a protein, including its structure and sequence information, predicting compound-protein binding affinity (CPA) still suffers from low accuracy when applying…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Binjie Guo , Hanyu Zheng , Haohan Jiang , Xiaodan Li , Naiyu Guan , Yanming Zuo , Yicheng Zhang , Hengfu Yang , Xuhua Wang

Accurate identification of drug-target interactions (DTI) remains a central challenge in computational pharmacology, where sequence-based methods offer scalability. This work introduces a sequence-based drug-target interaction framework…

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

Identification of drug-target interactions (DTIs) plays a key role in drug discovery. The high cost and labor-intensive nature of in vitro and in vivo experiments have highlighted the importance of in silico-based DTI prediction approaches.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-11 Ingoo Lee , Jongsoo Keum , Hojung Nam

Significant differences in protein structures hinder the generalization of existing drug-target interaction (DTI) models, which often rely heavily on pre-learned binding principles or detailed annotations. In contrast, BioBridge designs an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xiaoqing Lian , Jie Zhu , Tianxu Lv , Shiyun Nie , Hang Fan , Guosheng Wu , Yunjun Ge , Lihua Li , Xiangxiang Zeng , Xiang Pan

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-18 Md Masud Rana , Farjana Tasnim Mukta , Duc D. Nguyen

Predicting the binding affinity of protein protein complexes directly from sequence remains a challenging problem, particularly in the absence of reliable structural information. Here I present ProtT Affinity, a sequence only model that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-21 Hongfu Lou

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

The binding between proteins and ligands plays a crucial role in the realm of drug discovery. Previous deep learning approaches have shown promising results over traditional computationally intensive methods, but resulting in poor…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-29 Shikun Feng , Minghao Li , Yinjun Jia , Weiying Ma , Yanyan Lan

Machine learning models have found numerous successful applications in computational drug discovery. A large body of these models represents molecules as sequences since molecular sequences are easily available, simple, and informative. The…