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Predicting peptide toxicity accurately is essential to ensure the safety and efficacy of these drugs.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this study, we propose a novel model, ToxMSRC, to predict peptide toxicity using a combination of the continuous bag of words (CBOW) method from word2vec, synthetic minority over-sampling technique (SMOTE), multi-scale convolutional neural networks (CNN), and bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM). This approach addresses the challenge of data imbalance by augmenting positive samples and improves feature extraction through multi-scale convolution. Furthermore, the model incorporates a residual connection that helps prevent overfitting and enhances generalization ability, improving classification performance. The model is evaluated on benchmark and independent test sets, achieving BACC scores of 92.17% on independent test1 and 86.89% on independent test2, outperforming existing state-of-the-art models. Additionally, ToxMSRC provides valuable insights into the relationship between peptide toxicity and amino acid sequences, demonstrating its potential and practical value in peptide-based drug development.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The complete datasets, source code, and pre-trained models are made available at https:\/\/github.com\/Renjingyi123\/ToxMSRC and https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15668530.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btaf462","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,22]],"date-time":"2025-08-22T18:07:59Z","timestamp":1755886079000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["An innovative peptide toxicity prediction model based on multi-scale convolutional neural network and residual connection"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"41","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8786-0940","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shengli","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University , Xi\u2019an 710071, P. 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