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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

SP-DTI: subpocket-informed transformer for drug-target interaction prediction.

Sizhe Liu, Yuchen Liu, Haofeng Xu, Jun Xia, Stan Z Li

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. 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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Sizhe LiuThomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.ORCID 0009-0004-7190-5832
Yuchen LiuDepartment of Quantitative and Computational Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Haofeng XuThomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Jun XiaSchool of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7993-0803
Stan Z LiSchool of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China Project 623B2086National Natural Science Foundation of China Project U21A20427
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Abstract

motivationDrug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is crucial for drug discovery, significantly reducing costs and time in experimental searches across vast drug compound spaces. While deep learning has advanced DTI prediction accuracy, challenges remain: (i) existing methods often lack generalizability, with performance dropping significantly on unseen proteins and cross-domain settings; and (ii) current molecular relational learning often overlooks subpocket-level interactions, which are vital for a detailed understanding of binding sites.

resultsWe introduce SP-DTI, a subpocket-informed transformer model designed to address these challenges through: (i) detailed subpocket analysis using the Cavity Identification and Analysis Routine for interaction modeling at both global and local levels, and (ii) integration of pre-trained language models into graph neural networks to encode drugs and proteins, enhancing generalizability to unlabeled data. Benchmark evaluations show that SP-DTI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art models, achieving an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.873 in unseen protein settings, an 11% improvement over the best baseline. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The model scripts are available at https://github.com/Steven51516/SP-DTI.

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Computational BiologyDrug DiscoveryProteinsBinding SitesDeep LearningNeural Networks, ComputerProtein BindingSoftwareProteins

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