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ArticleInterdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences2025

A Multi-modal Drug Target Affinity Prediction Based on Graph Features and Pre-trained Sequence Embeddings.

Xin Tang, Xiujuan Lei, Lian Liu

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Xin TangSchool of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China.
Xiujuan LeiSchool of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China. xjlei@snnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9901-1732
Lian LiuSchool of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710119, China.

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Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Shaanxi Normal University GK202302006National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grand 62272288Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi No.2024JC-YBQN-0624
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With the advantages of reducing biochemical experiments and enabling the rapid screening of potential druggable compounds, accurate computational methods are essential for predicting Drug-Target affinity (DTA). Current deep learning-based DTA prediction methods predominantly concentrate on single-modal information from drugs or targets. In this article, we propose a new multi-modal DTA prediction method, MGSDTA, to integrate graph features and sequence features of drug molecules and target proteins. We extract features from the drug molecular graphs and target protein graphs, meanwhile, we extract sequence features using continuous embeddings generated by advanced self-supervised pre-trained models, Mol2vec and ProtVec, for drug substructures and target subsequences respectively. Finally, they are integrated with a weighted fusion module for DTA prediction. Experiments on benchmark datasets indicate that the performance of MGSDTA exceeds single-modal methods based solely on sequences or graphs.

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Computational BiologyProteinsAlgorithmsDeep LearningHumansPharmaceutical PreparationsPharmaceutical PreparationsProteinsDrug-target affinityGraph neural networkMulti-modal

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