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The rising interest in developing peptide drugs is evidenced by increasing approval rates by the FDA of USA. To identify the most potential peptides, study on peptide-protein interactions (PepPIs) presents a very important approach but poses considerable technical challenges. In experimental aspects, the transient nature of PepPIs and the high flexibility of peptides contribute to elevated costs and inefficiency. Traditional docking and molecular dynamics simulation methods require substantial computational resources, and the predictive accuracy of their results remain unsatisfactory.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>To address this gap, we proposed TPepPro, a Transformer-based model for PepPI prediction. We trained TPepPro on a dataset of 19,187 pairs of peptide-protein complexes with both sequential and structural features. 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