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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Pharmacophore</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">pharmacophorejournal.com</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Pharmacophore</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Pharmacophore</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2229-5402</issn>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">pharmacophorejournal.com-6914</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/x9ByggPSgq</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Original research</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Interpretable Models for Pharmacokinetic Interaction Magnitude Using Enzyme, Transporter, and Dose Features</article-title>
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                    <contrib-group>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Benali</surname>
                <given-names>Ahmed</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                                            <xref rid="cor1" ref-type="corresp" />
                          </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Boudiaf</surname>
                <given-names>Karim</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Touati</surname>
                <given-names>Samir</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                  </contrib-group>
                  <aff id="aff1">
            <label>1</label>Department of Computational Drug Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>Department of Pharmaceutical AI Systems, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
          </aff>
                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="ahmed.benali@gmail.com">ahmed.benali@gmail.com</email>
                          </corresp>
          </author-notes>
                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>43</fpage>
      <lpage>54</lpage>
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        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>Pharmacokinetic drug interactions can significantly alter drug exposure, particularly when a perpetrator drug inhibits or induces enzymes and transporters responsible for a victim drug’s clearance, and predicting the resulting fold-change in exposure requires consideration of pathway contribution, inhibitor potency, transporter involvement, and clinically relevant dose. Existing prediction tools range from simplified mechanistic equations to complex physiologically based pharmacokinetic simulations; while valuable, their outputs can be difficult for clinicians and regulators to interpret when multiple enzyme, transporter, and dose-related mechanisms act simultaneously. This article proposes an interpretable machine learning framework for predicting the AUC ratio of a victim drug when co-administered with a perpetrator drug, aiming to transparently attribute each prediction to enzyme inhibition, transporter effects, victim-drug disposition features, and perpetrator dose. A gradient-boosted tree model would be trained on curated clinical DDI evidence using features that encode CYP and transporter inhibition constants, fraction metabolized or transported, and dose-related exposure surrogates, with SHAP explanations decomposing each prediction into additive feature contributions reviewable at the level of a single interaction. Conceptually, the model would provide both a predicted interaction magnitude and a mechanistic explanation, indicating whether the prediction is primarily driven by strong CYP inhibition, transporter effects, dose-related exposure, or victim-drug pathway dependence, thereby creating a transparent audit trail. By connecting predicted exposure changes to mechanistic features, such an interpretable DDI prediction model could enhance confidence in computational pharmacokinetic risk assessment and support clinical decision-making, prescribing guidance, and regulatory review.</p>
      </abstract>
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                <kwd>: Explainable artificial intelligence</kwd>
                <kwd>Pharmacokinetics</kwd>
                <kwd>Drug–drug interactions</kwd>
                <kwd>SHAP</kwd>
                <kwd>CYP enzymes</kwd>
                <kwd>Transporters</kwd>
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