Perceiver CPI: a nested cross-attention network for compound-protein interaction prediction.

Journal: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
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Abstract

MOTIVATION: Compound-protein interaction (CPI) plays an essential role in drug discovery and is performed via expensive molecular docking simulations. Many artificial intelligence-based approaches have been proposed in this regard. Recently, two types of models have accomplished promising results in exploiting molecular information: graph convolutional neural networks that construct a learned molecular representation from a graph structure (atoms and bonds), and neural networks that can be applied to compute on descriptors or fingerprints of molecules. However, the superiority of one method over the other is yet to be determined. Modern studies have endeavored to aggregate information that is extracted from compounds and proteins to form the CPI task. Nonetheless, these approaches have used a simple concatenation to combine them, which cannot fully capture the interaction between such information.

Authors

  • Ngoc-Quang Nguyen
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
  • Gwanghoon Jang
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
  • Hajung Kim
    Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea.
  • Jaewoo Kang
    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.