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To facilitate functional annotation and accurate prediction of different types of NABPs, many machine learning-based computational approaches have been developed. However, the datasets used for training and testing as well as the prediction scopes in these studies have limited their applications. In this paper, we developed new strategies to overcome these limitations by generating more accurate and robust datasets and developing deep learning-based methods including both hierarchical and multi-class approaches to predict the types of NABPs for any given protein. The deep learning models employ two layers of convolutional neural network and one layer of long short-term memory. Our approaches outperform existing DBP and RBP predictors with a balanced prediction between DBPs and RBPs, and are more practically useful in identifying novel NABPs. The multi-class approach greatly improves the prediction accuracy of DBPs and RBPs, especially for the DBPs with ~12% improvement. 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