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PROTAC-DB 4.0: an expanded knowledgebase of targeted protein degradation modalities with AI-powered knowledge discovery.
Nucleic Acids Research · · Journal Article
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PROTAC-DB 4.0 expands targeted protein degradation knowledgebases to 15 502 PROTAC entries, 24 798 molecular glue entries, and 272 XTAC entries.
- Why it matters: The field’s fast growth in PROTAC, MG, and XTAC technologies and increasing AI use creates a need for comprehensive, continuously updated data and queryable resources.
- What they did: The team built PROTAC-DB 4.0 with expanded experimental annotations and modality-specific fields, and added a large language model with retrieval-augmented generation for natural-language queries.
- The result: The platform links structured records to scientific literature to enable intuitive knowledge discovery and supports degrader discovery, data-driven modeling, and rational design of next-generation therapeutics.
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