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Interpretable Prediction of Ligand-Protein Binding without Protein Structural Information.

Aug 2026 · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · Vol 69 16, pp. 19633-19643 · 0 citations
Medicine

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Ligand-protein binding prediction remains a central challenge, yet the contribution of ligand-side information to performance is unclear and ligand-only models as interpretable screening tools are established and used as a baseline for assessing the added value of protein representations.

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