“…The types of DDIs can be identified by biochemical experimental (or in vivo) methods, but experimental methods are usually time-consuming, tedious and expensive and sometimes lack reproducibility (Gao et al, 2015;Fang et al, 2017). Thus, it is highly desired to develop computational methods (or in silico) for efficiently and effectively analyzing and detecting new DDI pairs, and a variety of theoretical and computational methods have been developed to predict DDI types in recent years (Herrero-Zazo et al, 2013;Cheng and Zhao, 2014;Gottlieb et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2016;Takeda et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2017a;Zhang et al, 2017b;Andrej et al, 2018;Ryu et al, 2018;Yu et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2019;Deng et al, 2020;Feng et al, 2020;Harada et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2020;Fatehifar and Karshenas, 2021;Wang et al, 2021). Computational methods can guide experimentalists designing the best experimental scheme, narrowing the scope of candidate DDIs, and provide supporting evidence for their experimental results.…”