Drug-target binding affinity prediction using message passing neural network and self supervised learning.

Journal: BMC genomics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Drug-target binding affinity (DTA) prediction is important for the rapid development of drug discovery. Compared to traditional methods, deep learning methods provide a new way for DTA prediction to achieve good performance without much knowledge of the biochemical background. However, there are still room for improvement in DTA prediction: (1) only focusing on the information of the atom leads to an incomplete representation of the molecular graph; (2) the self-supervised learning method could be introduced for protein representation.

Authors

  • Leiming Xia
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
  • Lei Xu
    Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
  • Shourun Pan
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
  • Dongjiang Niu
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
  • Beiyi Zhang
    College of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China.
  • Zhen Li
    PepsiCo R&D, Valhalla, NY, United States.