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PLAPT: Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction Using Pretrained Transformers

Rose, T. A.; Monti, N.; Anand, N.; Shen, T.

2024-02-09 bioinformatics
10.1101/2024.02.08.575577 bioRxiv
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWPredicting protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for drug discovery, as it enables efficient identification of drug candidates. We introduce PLAPT, a novel model utilizing transfer learning from pre-trained transformers like ProtBERT and ChemBERTa to predict binding affinities with high accuracy. Our method processes one-dimensional protein and ligand sequences, leveraging a branching neural network architecture for feature integration and affinity estimation. We demonstrate PLAPTs superior performance through validation on multiple datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results while requiring significantly less computational resources for training compared to existing models. Our findings indicate that PLAPT offers a highly effective and accessible approach for accelerating drug discovery efforts.

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