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ArticleChemical science2026

An interpretable framework applying protein words to predict protein-small molecule complementary pairing rules.

Jingke Chen, Jingrui Zhong, Tazneen Hossain Tani, Zidong Su, Xiaochun Zhang, Boxue Tian

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Jingke ChenMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Jingrui ZhongMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Tazneen Hossain TaniMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Zidong SuMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Xiaochun ZhangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
Boxue TianMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Oncology, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China boxuetian@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5830-0669

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Abstract

Despite the high accuracy of 'black box' deep learning models, drug discovery still relies on protein-ligand interaction principles and heuristics. To improve interpretability of protein-small molecule binding predictions, we developed the PWRules framework, which applies binding affinity data to identify privileged small molecule fragments and subsequently defines complementary pairing rules between these fragments and protein words (semantic sequence units) through an interpretability module. The resulting word-fragment rules are then used by the PWScore function to prioritize active compounds. Evaluations on benchmark datasets show that PWScore achieves competitive performance comparable to the physics-based model (Glide) and the deep learning model (PSICHIC) and shows broad applicability for protein targets outside the training dataset,

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