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The claim describes the drop seen when the split instead keeps proteins separate by UniProt identity. If it holds, reported accuracy for predicting how mutations alter drug binding may depend heavily on how the data were partitioned, which matters for drug design and understanding drug resistance.","findings":["All six models showed high predictive correlations (Pearson coefficients up to 0.70) under random partitioning.","Performance declined under UniProt-based partitioning, which keeps data independent but lacks high prediction accuracy.","A proposed query-anchor pairwise framework, validated across three systems, improved prediction accuracy even with a small amount of reference data."],"terms":[{"term":"Pearson coefficient","means":"A number from -1 to 1 measuring how closely predicted values track measured values, with 1 meaning a perfect linear match."},{"term":"random partitioning","means":"Dividing a dataset into training and test sets by chance, without regard to how related the entries are."},{"term":"UniProt-based partitioning","means":"Dividing a dataset so that entries are grouped by their UniProt protein identifier, keeping the same protein out of both training and test sets."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"europepmc","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-22T08:31:11.605Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-22T08:31:11.605Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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