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Moreover, it is essential for us to account for the influence of diverse protein folding structural classes. Because proteins classified differently structurally exhibit varying biological functions, whereas those within the same structural class share similar functional attributes.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We proposed LVPocket, a novel method that synergistically captures both local and global information of protein structure through the integration of Transformer encoders, which help the model achieve better performance in binding pockets prediction. And then we tailored prediction models for data of four distinct structural classes of proteins using the transfer learning. The four fine-tuned models were trained on the baseline LVPocket model which was trained on the sc-PDB dataset. LVPocket exhibits superior performance on three independent datasets compared to current state-of-the-art methods. Additionally, the fine-tuned model outperforms the baseline model in terms of performance.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Scientific contribution<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We present a novel model structure for predicting protein binding pockets that provides a solution for relying on extensive convolutional computation while neglecting global information about protein structures. Furthermore, we tackle the impact of different protein folding structures on binding pocket prediction tasks through the application of transfer learning methods.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Graphical Abstract<\/jats:title>\n                \n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s13321-024-00871-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,7]],"date-time":"2024-07-07T17:01:34Z","timestamp":1720371694000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["LVPocket: integrated 3D global-local information to protein binding pockets prediction with transfer learning of protein structure classification"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Ruifeng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Jing","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sishu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wenjie","family":"Zeng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Yilun","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Xiaoshan","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7626-0162","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongyang","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0617-5840","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jun","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"871_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"787","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chembiol.2003.09.002","volume":"10","author":"AC Anderson","year":"2003","unstructured":"Anderson AC (2003) The process of structure-based drug design. 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