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Quantitative and interface-aware prediction of peptide–protein interactions by VITAL

Nature Machine Intelligence Bioinformatics AI Wei-Hao Chen, Qi-Wen Wang, Zhi-Yi Li, Song-Yang Li, Chen Lin, Zhi-Liang Ji 2026-08-19

TL;DR - VITAL is a dual-channel deep learning framework for quantitatively predicting peptide–protein interactions. It jointly models sequence and structural context to estimate binding affinity and identify interaction interfaces.

  • Co-learns complementary sequence and structural representations.
  • Predicts peptide–protein interactions quantitatively rather than only classifying binding.
  • Maps likely binding interfaces between peptides and proteins.
  • Could support computational studies of molecular recognition and peptide-based discovery.

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