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ReviewHealth information science and systems2024

A review of machine learning-based methods for predicting drug-target interactions.

Wen Shi, Hong Yang, Linhai Xie, Xiao-Xia Yin, Yanchun Zhang

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Review in Health information science and systems, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. GSF-DTA: An Innovative Graph-Sequence Fusion Framework for Drug-Target Affinity Prediction.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026
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  6. Interpretable Multimodal Molecular Language Model for Drug-Target Interaction Prediction.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Wen Shi *Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006 China.
Hong Yang *Cyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006 China.ORCID 0000-0002-4328-335X
Linhai XieState Key Laboratory of Proteomics, National Center for Protein Sciences (Beijing), Beijing, 102206 China.
Xiao-Xia YinCyberspace Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006 China.
Yanchun ZhangSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004 China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prediction of drug-target interactions (DTI) is a crucial preliminary stage in drug discovery and development, given the substantial risk of failure and the prolonged validation period associated with in vitro and in vivo experiments. In the contemporary landscape, various machine learning-based methods have emerged as indispensable tools for DTI prediction. This paper begins by placing emphasis on the data representation employed by these methods, delineating five representations for drugs and four for proteins. The methods are then categorized into traditional machine learning-based approaches and deep learning-based ones, with a discussion of representative approaches in each category and the introduction of a novel taxonomy for deep neural network models in DTI prediction. Additionally, we present a synthesis of commonly used datasets and evaluation metrics to facilitate practical implementation. In conclusion, we address current challenges and outline potential future directions in this research field.

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Data representationDeep neural network modelsDrug–target interactionsMachine learning

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PMID38617016
PMCPMC11014838

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