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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

Drug-drug interaction (DDI) prediction is central to drug discovery and clinical development, particularly in the context of increasingly prevalent polypharmacy. Although existing computational methods achieve strong performance on standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Dong Xu , Jiantao Wu , Qihua Pan , Sisi Yuan , Zexuan Zhu , Junkai Ji

We introduce milearn, a Python package for multi-instance learning (MIL) that follows the familiar scikit-learn fit/predict interface while providing a unified framework for both classical and neural-network-based MIL algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Dmitry Zankov , Pavlo Polishchuk , Michal Sobieraj , Mario Barbatti

The work for predicting drug and target affinity(DTA) is crucial for drug development and repurposing. In this work, we propose a novel method called GDGRU-DTA to predict the binding affinity between drugs and targets, which is based on…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-27 Lyu Zhijian , Jiang Shaohua , Liang Yigao , Gao Min

Predicting the binding sites of target proteins plays a fundamental role in drug discovery. Most existing deep-learning methods consider a protein as a 3D image by spatially clustering its atoms into voxels and then feed the voxelized…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-24 Yang Zhang , Zhewei Wei , Ye Yuan , Chongxuan Li , Wenbing Huang

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

Drug discovery seeks molecules (ligands) that bind strongly and selectively to a target protein. However, fewer than 5% of candidate ligands pass the bar for even the early stages of drug discovery. Furthermore, we want methods that work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rahul Nandakumar , Ben Fauber , Deepayan Chakrabarti

Despite considerable progress, ab initio protein structure prediction remains suboptimal. A crowdsourcing approach is the online puzzle video game Foldit, that provided several useful results that matched or even outperformed…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-09 Dimitra N. Panou , Martin Reczko

Virtual screening aims to efficiently identify active ligands from massive chemical libraries for a given target pocket. Recent CLIP-style models such as DrugCLIP enable scalable virtual screening by embedding pockets and ligands into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Anjie Qiao , Zhen Wang , Yaliang Li , Jiahua Rao , Yuedong Yang

Recent research on predicting the binding affinity between drug molecules and proteins use representations learned, through unsupervised learning techniques, from large databases of molecule SMILES and protein sequences. While these…

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental for deciphering cellular functions,disease pathways,and drug discovery.Although existing neural networks and machine learning methods have achieved high accuracy in PPI prediction,their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Qingzhi Yu , Shuai Yan , Wenfeng Dai , Xiang Cheng

The trade-off between predictive accuracy and data availability makes it difficult to predict protein--protein binding affinity accurately. The lack of experimentally resolved protein structures limits the performance of structure-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Maryum Bibi , Saiqa Andleeb , Muhammad Naveed Akhtar

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

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

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms hold great promise for applications in the field of computational biophysics. In fact, the vast amount of available molecular structures, as well as their notable complexity, constitutes an ideal context in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-07 Marco Giulini , Raffaello Potestio

Deep learning has made significant progress in protein structure prediction, advancing the development of computational biology. However, despite the high accuracy achieved in predicting single-chain structures, a significant number of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-08 Zhaoqun Li , Jingcheng Yu , Qiwei Ye

The primary objective of most lead optimization campaigns is to enhance the binding affinity of ligands. For large molecules such as antibodies, identifying mutations that enhance antibody affinity is particularly challenging due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Alexandra Gessner , Sebastian W. Ober , Owen Vickery , Dino Oglić , Talip Uçar

Despite the high accuracy of 'black box' deep learning models, drug discovery still relies on protein-ligand interaction principles and heuristics. To improve interpretability of protein-small molecule binding predictions, we developed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jingke Chen , Jingrui Zhong , Tazneen Hossain Tani , Zidong Su , Xiaochun Zhang , Boxue Tian

Accurate prediction of compound-protein interactions (CPI) remains a cornerstone challenge in computational drug discovery. While existing sequence-based approaches leverage molecular fingerprints or graph representations, they critically…

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