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In-silico approaches have drawn particular attention as they can reduce associated costs and time commitment of traditional methodologies. Yet, current state-of-the-art methods present several limitations: existing DTI prediction approaches are computationally expensive, thereby hindering the ability to use large networks and exploit available datasets and, the generalization to unseen datasets of DTI prediction methods remains unexplored, which could potentially improve the development processes of DTI inferring approaches in terms of accuracy and robustness.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>In this work, we introduce GeNNius (Graph Embedding Neural Network Interaction Uncovering System), a Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based method that outperforms state-of-the-art models in terms of both accuracy and time efficiency across a variety of datasets. We also demonstrated its prediction power to uncover new interactions by evaluating not previously known DTIs for each dataset. We further assessed the generalization capability of GeNNius by training and testing it on different datasets, showing that this framework can potentially improve the DTI prediction task by training on large datasets and testing on smaller ones. 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