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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2024

A comparison of embedding aggregation strategies in drug-target interaction prediction.

Dimitrios Iliadis, Bernard De Baets, Tapio Pahikkala, Willem Waegeman

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Dimitrios IliadisDepartment of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium. dimitrios.iliadis@ugent.be.
Bernard De BaetsDepartment of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
Tapio PahikkalaDepartment of Computing, University of Turku, 20500, Turku, Finland.
Willem WaegemanDepartment of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.

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Abstract

The prediction of interactions between novel drugs and biological targets is a vital step in the early stage of the drug discovery pipeline. Many deep learning approaches have been proposed over the last decade, with a substantial fraction of them sharing the same underlying two-branch architecture. Their distinction is limited to the use of different types of feature representations and branches (multi-layer perceptrons, convolutional neural networks, graph neural networks and transformers). In contrast, the strategy used to combine the outputs (embeddings) of the branches has remained mostly the same. The same general architecture has also been used extensively in the area of recommender systems, where the choice of an aggregation strategy is still an open question. In this work, we investigate the effectiveness of three different embedding aggregation strategies in the area of drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction. We formally define these strategies and prove their universal approximator capabilities. We then present experiments that compare the different strategies on benchmark datasets from the area of DTI prediction, showcasing conditions under which specific strategies could be the obvious choice.

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Drug DiscoveryElectric Power SuppliesNeural Networks, ComputerBinding affinity predictionDeep learningDrug–target interaction predictionRecommender systems

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PMID38321386
PMCPMC10845509

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