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Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids

Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids

Published on: May 4, 2018

A generative explainable model for antimicrobial peptide prediction using bidirectional temporal convolutional neural

Farman Ali^1,2, Majdi Khalid³, Raed Alsini⁴

¹Department of Computer Science, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. farman335@yahoo.com.

Scientific Reports

|March 18, 2026

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This study introduces GAC-BiTCNN-AMP, a novel deep learning framework for identifying antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) for precision oncology. The AI model enhances the discovery of targeted cancer therapeutics with high accuracy.

Area of Science:

Computational biology
Artificial intelligence in oncology
Drug discovery and development

Background:

Precision oncology leverages AI and multi-omics for mechanistic understanding and targeted therapeutics.
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) show promise in cancer treatment due to selective cytotoxicity and immunomodulatory effects.
Computational identification of AMPs is challenging due to complex structural and functional determinants.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop GAC-BiTCNN-AMP, a hybrid generative and explainable deep learning framework for advancing peptide discovery in precision oncology.
To improve the accurate computational identification of AMPs by addressing limitations of existing models.
To provide a scalable computational pipeline for therapeutic peptide discovery.

Main Methods:

Keywords:

Antimicrobial peptide Capsule networks Deep learning Generative adversarial network Protein language models

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Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids

Antimicrobial Peptides Produced by Selective Pressure Incorporation of Non-canonical Amino Acids

Published on: May 4, 2018

Integrated Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for data diversity, Capsule Networks for hierarchical dependencies, and Bidirectional Temporal Convolutional Neural Network (BiTCNN) for sequence context.
Incorporated advanced protein language model embeddings (ProtTrans-T5, UniRep, ESM-2) and a novel PsePSSM-DCT evolutionary descriptor.
Utilized wrapper-based XGBoost Forward Feature Selection for feature space refinement and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) for interpretability.

Main Results:

Achieved high predictive performance: 97.42% accuracy and 0.923 MCC in cross-validation.
Demonstrated strong performance on an independent test set: 95.32% accuracy and 0.914 MCC.
SHAP analysis confirmed the interpretability of the framework at the representation level, highlighting key contributions to peptide activity.

Conclusions:

GAC-BiTCNN-AMP offers a scalable and interpretable computational pipeline for identifying therapeutic peptides.
The framework integrates generative modeling, deep representation learning, and explainable AI to support precision cancer applications.
This approach accelerates the discovery of targeted, immune-modulatory peptides for cancer treatment.