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ArticleNature machine intelligence2024

Multiscale topology-enabled structure-to-sequence transformer for protein-ligand interaction predictions.

Dong Chen, Jian Liu, Guo-Wei Wei

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Article in Nature machine intelligence, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Topology-Aware Deep Learning on Higher-Order Structures for Drug Response Prediction.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  12. Drug Resistance Predictions Based on a Directed Flag Transformer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  17. A review of transformer models in drug discovery and beyond.Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2025
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Dong ChenDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5397-0447
Jian LiuMathematical Science Research Center, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4362-5273
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8132-5998

Funding

AI-based platform for predicting emerging vaccine-escape variants and designing mutation-proof antibodiesR01AI164266 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Guowei Wei, YONG-HUI ZHENG · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
Discovery-Driven Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence for Biosciences and Drug DiscoveryR35GM148196 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA · PI Guowei Wei · 2023 to 2026
$1.5M
Synergistic integration of topology and machine learning for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and mutation impactsR01GM126189 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, GUOWEI · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI164266NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126189NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM148196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the success of pretrained natural language processing (NLP) models in various fields, their application in computational biology has been hindered by their reliance on biological sequences, which ignores vital three-dimensional (3D) structural information incompatible with the sequential architecture of NLP models. Here we present a topological transformer (TopoFormer), which is built by integrating NLP models and a multiscale topology technique, the persistent topological hyperdigraph Laplacian (PTHL), which systematically converts intricate 3D protein-ligand complexes at various spatial scales into an NLP-admissible sequence of topological invariants and homotopic shapes. PTHL systematically transforms intricate 3D protein-ligand complexes into NLP-compatible sequences of topological invariants and shapes, capturing essential interactions across spatial scales. TopoFormer gives rise to exemplary scoring accuracy and excellent performance in ranking, docking and screening tasks in several benchmark datasets. This approach can be utilized to convert general high-dimensional structured data into NLP-compatible sequences, paving the way for broader NLP based research.

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PMID40718138
PMCPMC12290916

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