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The first step in drug discovery is finding drug molecule moieties with medicinal activity against specific targets. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the interaction between drug-target proteins and small chemical molecules. However,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-15 Boyuan Liu

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

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is a core task in drug development and precision medicine in the biomedical field. However, traditional machine learning methods generally have the black box problem, which makes it difficult to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-30 Wenfeng Dai , Yanhong Wang , Shuai Yan , Qingzhi Yu , Xiang Cheng

Drug-target affinity (DTA) prediction is a critical aspect of drug discovery. The meaningful representation of drugs and targets is crucial for accurate prediction. Using 1D string-based representations for drugs and targets is a common…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Kusal Debnath , Pratip Rana , Preetam Ghosh

Publicly available collections of drug-like molecules have grown to comprise 10s of billions of possibilities in recent history due to advances in chemical synthesis. Traditional methods for identifying "hit" molecules from a large…

Motivation: Identifying drug-target interactions (DTIs) is a key step in drug repositioning. In recent years, the accumulation of a large number of genomics and pharmacology data has formed mass drug and target related heterogeneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Hongzhun Wang , Feng Huang , Wen Zhang

Accurate prediction of drug response in precision medicine requires models that capture how specific chemical substructures interact with cellular pathway states. However, most existing deep learning approaches treat chemical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yewon Han , Sunghyun Kim , Eunyi Jeong , Sungkyung Lee , Seokwoo Yun , Sangsoo Lim

Molecular representation learning, a cornerstone for downstream tasks like molecular captioning and molecular property prediction, heavily relies on Graph Neural Networks (GNN). However, GNN suffers from the over-smoothing problem, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Zihang Shao , Wentao Lei , Lei Wang , Wencai Ye , Li Liu

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

Drug discovery remains a slow and expensive process that involves many steps, from detecting the target structure to obtaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is often riddled with safety concerns. Accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Ali Vefghi , Zahed Rahmati , Mohammad Akbari

Cancer is the second leading cause of death, with chemotherapy as one of the primary forms of treatment. As a result, researchers are turning to drug combination therapy to decrease drug resistance and increase efficacy. Current methods of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-08 Zachary Schwehr

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is crucial for drug development and repositioning. Methods using heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) for DTI prediction have become a promising approach, with attention-based models often…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-05 Junwei Hu , Michael Bewong , Selasi Kwashie , Wen Zhang , Vincent M. Nofong , Guangsheng Wu , Zaiwen Feng

Applying deep learning concepts from image detection and graph theory has greatly advanced protein-ligand binding affinity prediction, a challenge with enormous ramifications for both drug discovery and protein engineering. We build upon…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Gregory W. Kyro , Rafael I. Brent , Victor S. Batista

Developing and discovering new drugs is a complex and resource-intensive endeavor that often involves substantial costs, time investment, and safety concerns. A key aspect of drug discovery involves identifying novel drug-target (DT)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Rakesh Bal , Yijia Xiao , Wei Wang

Elucidating and accurately predicting the druggability and bioactivities of molecules plays a pivotal role in drug design and discovery and remains an open challenge. Recently, graph neural networks (GNN) have made remarkable advancements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Weimin Zhu , Yi Zhang , DuanCheng Zhao , Jianrong Xu , Ling Wang

Accurately predicting the binding affinity between drugs and proteins is an essential step for computational drug discovery. Since graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in various graph-related tasks, GNNs have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-18 Jingbo Zhou , Shuangli Li , Liang Huang , Haoyi Xiong , Fan Wang , Tong Xu , Hui Xiong , Dejing Dou

Test-time adaptation (TTA) refers to adjusting the model during the testing phase to cope with changes in sample distribution and enhance the model's adaptability to new environments. In real-world scenarios, models often encounter samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ziqiong Liu , Yushun Tang , Junyang Ji , Zhihai He

We propose a new attention mechanism, called Global Hierarchical Attention (GHA), for 3D point cloud analysis. GHA approximates the regular global dot-product attention via a series of coarsening and interpolation operations over multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Dan Jia , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) has emerged as a powerful tool for extracting meaningful features from complex data structures, driving significant advancements in fields such as neuroscience, biology, machine learning, and financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 ZiXin Lin , Nur Fariha Syaqina Zulkepli

Network meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy (NMA-DTA) is a relatively new field, involving combining evidence across studies to evaluate and compare the accuracy of different tests for a given condition. However, the methods proposed…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-23 Efthymia Derezea , Gabriel Rogers , Nicky J Welton , Hayley E Jones