bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 19, 2025
A
bstract
Predicting
synergistic
cancer
drug
combinations
through
computational
methods
offers
a
scalable
approach
to
creating
therapies
that
are
more
effective
and
less
toxic.
However,
most
algorithms
focus
solely
on
synergy
without
considering
toxicity
when
selecting
optimal
combinations.
In
the
absence
of
combinatorial
assays,
few
models
use
penalties
balance
high
with
lower
toxicity.
these
have
not
been
explicitly
validated
against
known
drug-drug
interactions.
this
study,
we
examine
whether
scores
metrics
correlate
adverse
While
some
show
trends
levels,
our
results
reveal
significant
limitations
in
using
them
as
penalties.
These
findings
highlight
challenges
incorporating
into
prediction
frameworks
suggest
advancing
field
requires
comprehensive
combination
data.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(1)
Published: Jan. 20, 2025
Predicting
drug-target
interaction
(DTI)
stands
as
a
pivotal
and
formidable
challenge
in
pharmaceutical
research.
Many
existing
deep
learning
methods
only
learn
the
high-dimensional
representation
of
ligands
targets
on
small
scale.
However,
it
is
difficult
for
model
to
obtain
potential
law
combining
pockets
or
multiple
binding
sites
large
To
address
this
lacuna,
we
designed
large-kernel
convolutional
block
extracting
large-scale
sequence
information
proposed
novel
DTI
prediction
framework,
named
Rep-ConvDTI.
The
reparameterization
method
introduced
help
convolutions
capture
small-scale
information.
We
have
also
developed
gated
attention
mechanism
more
efficiently
characterize
drugs
targets.
Extensive
experiments
demonstrate
that
Rep-ConvDTI
achieves
most
competitive
performance
against
state-of-the-art
baselines
three
benchmark
datasets.
Furthermore,
validated
drug
screening
tool
through
interpretative
studies
with
cystathionine-β-synthase.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 19, 2025
A
bstract
Predicting
synergistic
cancer
drug
combinations
through
computational
methods
offers
a
scalable
approach
to
creating
therapies
that
are
more
effective
and
less
toxic.
However,
most
algorithms
focus
solely
on
synergy
without
considering
toxicity
when
selecting
optimal
combinations.
In
the
absence
of
combinatorial
assays,
few
models
use
penalties
balance
high
with
lower
toxicity.
these
have
not
been
explicitly
validated
against
known
drug-drug
interactions.
this
study,
we
examine
whether
scores
metrics
correlate
adverse
While
some
show
trends
levels,
our
results
reveal
significant
limitations
in
using
them
as
penalties.
These
findings
highlight
challenges
incorporating
into
prediction
frameworks
suggest
advancing
field
requires
comprehensive
combination
data.