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ArticleNature communications2025

Evidential deep learning-based drug-target interaction prediction.

Yanpeng Zhao, Yuting Xing, Yixin Zhang, Yifei Wang, Mengxuan Wan, Duoyun Yi, Chengkun Wu, Shangze Li, Huiyan Xu, Hongyang Zhang and 11 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

Yanpeng Zhao *Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2117-630X
Yuting Xing *Defense Innovation Institute, Academy of Military Science, Beijing, China.
Yixin Zhang *Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0843-0086
Yifei WangAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Mengxuan WanAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Duoyun YiAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Chengkun WuCollege of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9688-5311
Shangze LiAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Huiyan XuAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Hongyang ZhangAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Ziyi LiuAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Guowei ZhouAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Mengfan LiAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3236-6600
Xuanze WangAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Zhengshan ChenAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Ruijiang LiAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3521-8926
Lianlian WuAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-4488
Dongsheng ZhaoAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-8891
Peng ZanSchool of Medicine, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. zanpeng@shu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2588-2188
Song HeAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. hes1224@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4136-6151
Xiaochen BoAcademy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. boxc@bmi.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3490-5812

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug-target interaction (DTI) prediction is a crucial component of drug discovery. Recent deep learning methods show great potential in this field but also encounter substantial challenges. These include generating reliable confidence estimates for predictions, enhancing robustness when handling novel, unseen DTIs, and mitigating the tendency toward overconfident and incorrect predictions. To solve these problems, we propose EviDTI, a novel approach utilizing evidential deep learning (EDL) for uncertainty quantification in neural network-based DTI prediction. EviDTI integrates multiple data dimensions, including drug 2D topological graphs and 3D spatial structures, and target sequence features. Through EDL, EviDTI provides uncertainty estimates for its predictions. Experimental results on three benchmark datasets demonstrate the competitiveness of EviDTI against 11 baseline models. In addition, our study shows that EviDTI can calibrate prediction errors. More importantly, well-calibrated uncertainty information enhances the efficiency of drug discovery by prioritizing DTIs with higher confident predictions for experimental validation. In a case study focused on tyrosine kinase modulators, uncertainty-guided predictions identify novel potential modulators targeting tyrosine kinase FAK and FLT3. These results underscore the potential of evidential deep learning as a robust tool for uncertainty quantification in DTI prediction and its broader implications for accelerating drug discovery.

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