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A multimodal human protein embeddings database: DeepDrug Protein Embeddings Bank (DPEB).

Md Saiful Islam Sajol¹, Magesh Rajasekaran², Hayden Gemeinhardt¹

¹Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States.

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|May 6, 2026

Summary

DeepDrug Protein Embeddings Bank (DPEB) enhances protein-protein interaction prediction using integrated multimodal protein representations. This resource improves computational modeling for systems biology and drug discovery.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Bioinformatics
Machine learning in biology

Background:

Predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is crucial but challenging due to limited integrated protein data.
Existing resources often lack comprehensive, multimodal protein representations essential for advanced computational modeling.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce the DeepDrug Protein Embeddings Bank (DPEB), a novel resource integrating diverse protein embeddings.
To provide AlphaFold2-derived neural network embeddings for computational applications, addressing a gap in publicly available data.

Main Methods:

DPEB integrates 22,043 human proteins with four embedding types: AlphaFold2 structural, BioEmbeddings transformer-based sequence, ESM-2 contextual amino acid patterns, and ProtVec n-gram statistics.
Benchmark evaluations utilized GraphSAGE and other graph neural network methods for PPI prediction, enzyme classification, and protein family classification.

Main Results:

GraphSAGE combined with BioEmbedding achieved state-of-the-art PPI prediction performance (87.37% AUROC, 79.16% accuracy).
The framework demonstrated high accuracy in enzyme classification (77.42%) and protein family classification (86.04%).

Conclusions:

DPEB provides a valuable, integrated resource for computational protein modeling and analysis.
The DPEB framework supports various graph neural network models, facilitating advancements in systems biology, drug target identification, and disease mechanism studies.