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  • Computational Biology
  • Drug Discovery
  • Bioinformatics

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  • Accurate protein-ligand interaction (PLI) prediction is vital for drug discovery.
  • Existing methods face challenges in integrating diverse data modalities and optimizing knowledge transfer from pretraining.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel transferability-guided method for PLI prediction.
  • To enhance knowledge transfer by deeply integrating protein and ligand representations and guiding fine-tuning.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a cross-attention mechanism for deep integration and interactive information exchange between protein and ligand modalities.
  • Incorporated transferability metrics to quantify and guide the fine-tuning process, maximizing beneficial knowledge transfer and minimizing negative transfer.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated significant and consistent improvements over traditional fine-tuning methods, validated by statistical tests.
  • Ablation studies confirmed the critical role of the cross-attention mechanism.
  • Quantitative analysis showed the method's effectiveness in reducing harmful knowledge transfer.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed transferability-guided strategy offers a new paradigm for utilizing pretraining knowledge in PLI prediction.
  • This approach enhances PLI prediction accuracy through innovative modality fusion and guided knowledge transfer, accelerating drug discovery pipelines.