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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

ArkDTA: attention regularization guided by non-covalent interactions for explainable drug-target binding affinity prediction.

Mogan Gim, Junseok Choe, Seungheun Baek, Jueon Park, Chaeeun Lee, Minjae Ju, Sumin Lee, Jaewoo Kang

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Mogan GimDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-6458-7723
Junseok ChoeDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9548-7146
Seungheun BaekDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-3231-478X
Jueon ParkDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0613-120X
Chaeeun LeeDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3778-6177
Minjae JuLG CNS, AI Research Center, Seoul 07795, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0009-0003-4048-4089
Sumin LeeLG AI Research, Seoul 07795, Republic of Korea.
Jaewoo KangDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6798-9106

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motivationProtein-ligand binding affinity prediction is a central task in drug design and development. Cross-modal attention mechanism has recently become a core component of many deep learning models due to its potential to improve model explainability. Non-covalent interactions (NCIs), one of the most critical domain knowledge in binding affinity prediction task, should be incorporated into protein-ligand attention mechanism for more explainable deep drug-target interaction models. We propose ArkDTA, a novel deep neural architecture for explainable binding affinity prediction guided by NCIs.

resultsExperimental results show that ArkDTA achieves predictive performance comparable to current state-of-the-art models while significantly improving model explainability. Qualitative investigation into our novel attention mechanism reveals that ArkDTA can identify potential regions for NCIs between candidate drug compounds and target proteins, as well as guiding internal operations of the model in a more interpretable and domain-aware manner. AVAILABILITY: ArkDTA is available at https://github.com/dmis-lab/ArkDTA. CONTACT: kangj@korea.ac.kr.

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