EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Ali Motahharynia
dblp:393/2365
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0002-1140-3257ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › drug discovery
druggability prediction |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DrugTar improves druggability prediction by integrating large language models and gene ontologies · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › drug discovery › target identification
drug target identification |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DrugTar improves druggability prediction by integrating large language models and gene ontologies · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein analysis › protein bioinformatics › protein representation learning
protein language model embedding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DrugTar improves druggability prediction by integrating large language models and gene ontologies · Bioinform. 2025 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein analysis › protein bioinformatics
protein representation learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | DrugTar improves druggability prediction by integrating large language models and gene ontologies · Bioinform. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
gene ontology integration · 0.9deep learning · 0.9ESM-2 protein language model · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | DrugTar improves druggability prediction by integrating large language models and gene ontologiesabstractMOTIVATION: Target discovery is crucial in drug development, especially for complex chronic diseases. Recent advances in high-throughput technologies and the explosion of biomedical data have highlighted the potential of computational druggability prediction methods. However, most current methods rely on sequence-based features with machine learning, which often face challenges related to hand-crafted features, reproducibility, and accessibility. Moreover, the potential of raw sequence and protein structure has not been fully investigated. RESULTS: Here, we leveraged both protein sequence and structure using deep learning techniques, revealing that protein sequence, especially pre-trained embeddings, is more informative than protein structure. Next, we developed DrugTar, a high-performance deep learning algorithm integrating sequence embeddings from the ESM-2 pre-trained protein language model with gene ontologies to predict druggability. DrugTar achieved areas under the curve and precision-recall curve values of 0.94, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. In conclusion, DrugTar streamlines target discovery as a bottleneck in developing novel therapeutics. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: DrugTar is available as a web server at www.DrugTar.com. The data and source code are at https://github.com/NBorhani/DrugTar. Niloofar Borhani, Iman Izadi, Ali Motahharynia, Mahsa Sheikholeslami, Yousof Gheisari |
Bioinform. | 3 |