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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2023

The Impact of Data on Structure-Based Binding Affinity Predictions Using Deep Neural Networks.

Pierre-Yves Libouban, Samia Aci-Sèche, Jose Carlos Gómez-Tamayo, Gary Tresadern, Pascal Bonnet

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  2. Extremely Randomized Trees to Determine Binding Affinity.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  4. A generalizable deep learning framework for structure-based protein-ligand affinity ranking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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Pierre-Yves LiboubanInstitute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry (ICOA), UMR7311, Université d'Orléans, CNRS, Pôle de Chimie rue de Chartres, 45067 Orléans, CEDEX 2, France.
Samia Aci-SècheInstitute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry (ICOA), UMR7311, Université d'Orléans, CNRS, Pôle de Chimie rue de Chartres, 45067 Orléans, CEDEX 2, France.ORCID 0000-0003-2627-7924
Jose Carlos Gómez-TamayoComputational Chemistry, Janssen Research & Development, Janssen Pharmaceutica N. V., B-2340 Beerse, Belgium.
Gary TresadernComputational Chemistry, Janssen Research & Development, Janssen Pharmaceutica N. V., B-2340 Beerse, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-4801-1644
Pascal BonnetInstitute of Organic and Analytical Chemistry (ICOA), UMR7311, Université d'Orléans, CNRS, Pôle de Chimie rue de Chartres, 45067 Orléans, CEDEX 2, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6485-138X

Funding

Janssen (Belgium) 262402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant traction in the field of drug discovery, with deep learning (DL) algorithms playing a crucial role in predicting protein-ligand binding affinities. Despite advancements in neural network architectures, system representation, and training techniques, the performance of DL affinity prediction has reached a plateau, prompting the question of whether it is truly solved or if the current performance is overly optimistic and reliant on biased, easily predictable data. Like other DL-related problems, this issue seems to stem from the training and test sets used when building the models. In this work, we investigate the impact of several parameters related to the input data on the performance of neural network affinity prediction models. Notably, we identify the size of the binding pocket as a critical factor influencing the performance of our statistical models; furthermore, it is more important to train a model with as much data as possible than to restrict the training to only high-quality datasets. Finally, we also confirm the bias in the typically used current test sets. Therefore, several types of evaluation and benchmarking are required to understand models' decision-making processes and accurately compare the performance of models.

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Artificial IntelligenceNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsLigandsProtein BindingLigandsbinding affinitiesdeep learningprotein–ligand

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PMID38003312
PMCPMC10671244

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