DeepCNN-DTI: A Deep Learning Model for Detecting Drug-Target Interactions

Drug target interaction is an important area of drug discovery, development, and repositioning. Knowing that in vitro experiments are time-consuming and computationally expensive, the development of an efficient predictive model is a promising challenge for Drug-Target Interactions (DTIs) prediction. Motivated by this problem, we propose in this paper a new prediction model called DeepCNN-DTI to efficiently solve such complex real-world activities. The main motivation behind this work is to explore the advantages of a deep learning strategy with feature extraction techniques, resulting in an advanced model that effectively captures the complex relationships between drug molecules and target proteins for accurate DTIs prediction. Experimental results generated based on a set of data in terms of accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity, and F1-score demonstrate the superiority of the model compared to other competing learning strategies.