Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab

Centre for AI Driven Drug Discovery at Macao Polytechnic University

We are dedicated to advancing computational biology to improve our understanding of biomolecular systems and accelerate discovery in health and life sciences. We combine biological insight with data-driven methods, including deep learning, large language models, knowledge graphs, and optimization algorithms, to address challenging problems at the interface of computation and biology.

In drug discovery, our research spans method development for peptide and small-molecule drug discovery and property prediction, from target identification to lead discovery. Previous projects have focused on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), anticancer peptides (ACPs), antioxidant peptides (AOPs), bacterial targets (TxSS), and cancer targets (TROP2 and HER2).

In health sciences, we work on medical imaging diagnosis, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, as well as spatial gene expression prediction for cancer research.

Explore our app portal (https://app.cbbio.online). Some program source codes can be downloaded from our GitHub page or SourceForge page.

Join us!!! PhD admission 2026/2027 (Admission period: 15 Oct 2025 to 15 May 2026) 中文版

What’s new?

Congratulations to Cai on her successful PhD defense!

We are proud to share that Jianxiu Cai successfully defended her dissertation on Thursday (Apr 23, 2026). Her work, “Computational Modeling of Peptide Bioactivities Using Sequence-based Deep Learning Architecture”, designed both large and slim deep learning models to address the challenges of peptide activity prediction, generating highly accurate models despite small datasets, high structural flexibility…

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Xiangyu’s work on spatial gene expression prediction is now published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Congratulations to Xiangyu on the publication of the new work in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence! In this paper, the team proposes CrossToGene, a bidirectional cross-modality interaction framework for predicting spatial gene expression from histopathological images. The method introduces spatial encoding to capture both macro/micro tissue cues, a bidirectional cross-modal interaction module for stronger fusion…

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Xinpo’s Recent Studies on Drug–Target Interaction and Molecular Modeling Are Now Published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and the Journal of Cheminformatics

Congratulations to Xinpo Lou on the publication of his two recent works in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and Journal of Cheminformatics! The proposed MambaTransDTA model introduces a novel hybrid Mamba–Transformer architecture for drug–target binding affinity prediction. By effectively combining long-range dependency modeling with local interaction learning, the model achieves strong and consistent performance…

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