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Concomitant administration of drugs can cause drug-drug interactions (DDIs). Some drug combinations are beneficial, but other ones may cause negative effects which are previously unrecorded. Previous works on DDI prediction usually rely on…

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Recently, machine learning (ML) has gained popularity in the early stages of drug discovery. This trend is unsurprising given the increasing volume of relevant experimental data and the continuous improvement of ML algorithms. However,…

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Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is crucial for identifying new therapeutics and detecting mechanisms of action. While structure-based methods accurately model physical interactions between a drug and its protein target, cell-based…

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Predicting and discovering drug-drug interactions (DDIs) is an important problem and has been studied extensively both from medical and machine learning point of view. Almost all of the machine learning approaches have focused on text data…

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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…

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We present TerraBind, a foundation model for protein-ligand structure and binding affinity prediction that achieves 26-fold faster inference than state-of-the-art methods while improving affinity prediction accuracy by $\sim$20\%. Current…

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Drug combinations are essential in cancer therapy, leveraging synergistic drug-drug interactions (DDI) to enhance efficacy and combat resistance. However, the vast combinatorial space makes experimental screening impractical, and existing…

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We introduce Bi-GNN for modeling biological link prediction tasks such as drug-drug interaction (DDI) and protein-protein interaction (PPI). Taking drug-drug interaction as an example, existing methods using machine learning either only…

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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…

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Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

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In the treatment of complex diseases, treatment regimens using a single drug often yield limited efficacy and can lead to drug resistance. In contrast, combination drug therapies can significantly improve therapeutic outcomes through…

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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…

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Subgraph-based methods have proven to be effective and interpretable in predicting drug-drug interactions (DDIs), which are essential for medical practice and drug development. Subgraph selection and encoding are critical stages in these…

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Deep learning models for drug--target interaction (DTI) prediction often achieve strong benchmark performance without necessarily relying on mechanistically meaningful molecular features, a limitation that standard accuracy-based evaluation…

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