{
  "id": 1906735,
  "title": "Quantitative and interface-aware prediction of peptide–protein interactions by VITAL",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/quantitative-and-interface-aware-prediction-of-peptide-protein",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature Machine Intelligence",
    "slug": "nature-machine-intelligence",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01291-z"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 19 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01291-z Chen, Wang, Li et al. introduce VITAL, a dual-channel deep learning framework that co-learns sequence and structural contexts to quantitatively predict peptide–protein interactions, map binding interfaces and estimate affinity.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}