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Fingerprint-Enhanced Graph Attention Network (FinGAT) Model for Antibiotic Discovery.

Hou Yee Choo¹, JunJie Wee¹, Cong Shen^1,2

¹Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371.

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|May 11, 2023

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A new AI model, fingerprint-enhanced graph attention network (FinGAT), improves antibiotic discovery by combining molecular sequence and structure data. This approach enhances machine learning accuracy for identifying novel antibiotics.

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Machine learning
Drug discovery

Background:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing antibiotic discovery.
Effective molecular featurization is crucial for accurate AI models in this field.
Existing Graph Neural Network (GNN) models have limitations in capturing comprehensive molecular information.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an advanced AI model for enhanced antibiotic discovery.
To integrate both sequence-based and structure-based molecular features for improved prediction.
To introduce the fingerprint-enhanced graph attention network (FinGAT) model.

Main Methods:

Sequence information is converted into a 2D fingerprint vector.
Structural information is encoded into a vector using a Graph Attention Network (GAT) module.
These vectors are concatenated and fed into a multilayer perceptron (MLP) for classification.

Main Results:

The FinGAT model demonstrated superior performance compared to existing GNN models.
The integration of sequence and structure features significantly improved antibiotic activity classification.
FinGAT achieved state-of-the-art results in antibiotic discovery tasks.

Conclusions:

The FinGAT model offers a powerful new approach for AI-driven antibiotic discovery.
Combining diverse molecular representations enhances the predictive power of machine learning models.
This work paves the way for more efficient identification of novel antibiotic compounds.