CausalNovo
algorithm · Transformer (AR)
Causality-informed framework
| Kind | algorithm |
| Deep learning | yes |
| Acquisition | DDA |
| Family | Transformer (AR) |
Code
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Reported comparisons (8)
The comparison tables this method’s own papers print, standardised: every value on a 0-1 scale, methods down the side, the measure and then the species across. These are numbers papers report about themselves and their baselines. They are not a leaderboard, and they do not compare across tables: each was produced by a different group, on the dataset named in its corner, with each baseline either retrained, run from released weights or quoted from another paper. Where the paper says which, it follows the method’s name (hover it for the sentence); most papers do not say. Bold is the best value in a column and underline the runner-up, our ranking rather than the paper’s own marks.
Table1 (HC-PT)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in amino acid-level and peptide-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are provided by NovoBench. The best results are marked in bold, and the second-best results are underlined.
|
ProteomeTools HC-PT (NovoBench) |
Amino acid precision | Amino acid recall | Peptide precision | Peptide AUC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.531 | 0.534 | 0.313 | 0.255 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.623 | 0.622 | 0.419 | 0.373 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.289 | 0.285 | 0.057 | 0.034 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.652 | 0.658 | 0.447 | 0.413 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.442 | 0.453 | 0.211 | 0.177 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.525 | 0.530 | 0.324 | 0.290 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.635 | 0.639 | 0.459 | 0.426 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.442 | 0.451 | 0.212 | 0.178 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.492 | 0.496 | 0.289 | 0.254 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.634 | 0.637 | 0.453 | 0.420 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.588 | 0.582 | 0.356 | 0.318 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.532 | 0.537 | 0.301 | 0.261 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.656 | 0.658 | 0.450 | 0.415 |
Table1 (Nine-species)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in amino acid-level and peptide-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are provided by NovoBench. The best results are marked in bold, and the second-best results are underlined.
| Nine-species benchmark | Amino acid precision | Amino acid recall | Peptide precision | Peptide AUC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEAKS · quoted | 0.748 | 0.428 | ||
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.696 | 0.638 | 0.428 | 0.376 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.740 | 0.671 | 0.480 | 0.436 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.420 | 0.395 | 0.164 | 0.123 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.748 | 0.746 | 0.550 | 0.489 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.697 | 0.696 | 0.481 | 0.439 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.741 | 0.740 | 0.529 | 0.493 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.765 | 0.766 | 0.564 | 0.528 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.698 | 0.709 | 0.505 | 0.469 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.681 | 0.681 | 0.473 | 0.439 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.744 | 0.746 | 0.542 | 0.507 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.765 | 0.758 | 0.517 | 0.453 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.765 | 0.752 | 0.509 | 0.431 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.787 | 0.784 | 0.543 | 0.483 |
Table1 (Seven-species)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in amino acid-level and peptide-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are provided by NovoBench. The best results are marked in bold, and the second-best results are underlined.
| Seven-species benchmark | Amino acid precision | Amino acid recall | Peptide precision | Peptide AUC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.492 | 0.433 | 0.204 | 0.136 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.196 | 0.169 | 0.022 | 0.007 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.192 | 0.176 | 0.031 | 0.009 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.489 | 0.488 | 0.259 | 0.174 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.322 | 0.327 | 0.119 | 0.084 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.357 | 0.366 | 0.159 | 0.119 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.477 | 0.478 | 0.245 | 0.200 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.379 | 0.385 | 0.174 | 0.135 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.403 | 0.405 | 0.189 | 0.149 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.453 | 0.453 | 0.233 | 0.192 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.481 | 0.472 | 0.234 | 0.173 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.465 | 0.462 | 0.218 | 0.156 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.536 | 0.534 | 0.282 | 0.229 |
Table2 (HC-PT)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in PTM-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are given by NovoBench. The best is marked in bold.
|
ProteomeTools HC-PT (NovoBench) |
Ptm precision | Ptm recall |
|---|---|---|
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.626 | 0.615 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.676 | 0.740 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.350 | 0.261 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.715 | 0.772 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.501 | 0.460 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.550 | 0.582 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.671 | 0.741 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.552 | 0.482 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.562 | 0.532 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.652 | 0.743 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.568 | 0.667 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.632 | 0.566 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.737 | 0.746 |
Table2 (Nine-species)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in PTM-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are given by NovoBench. The best is marked in bold.
| Nine-species benchmark | Ptm precision | Ptm recall |
|---|---|---|
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.576 | 0.529 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.629 | 0.546 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.443 | 0.294 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.764 | 0.599 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.706 | 0.566 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.755 | 0.601 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.791 | 0.608 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.652 | 0.570 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.678 | 0.552 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.769 | 0.607 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.680 | 0.598 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.723 | 0.593 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.731 | 0.616 |
Table2 (Seven-species)
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Comparison with state-of-the-art models in PTM-level performance. † denotes our retrained results, and others are given by NovoBench. The best is marked in bold.
| Seven-species benchmark | Ptm precision | Ptm recall |
|---|---|---|
| DeepNovo · quoted | 0.391 | 0.373 |
| PointNovo · quoted | 0.117 | 0.094 |
| InstaNovo · quoted | 0.126 | 0.115 |
| SearchNovo · quoted | 0.472 | 0.447 |
| Casanovo · quoted | 0.360 | 0.251 |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.368 | 0.292 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.503 | 0.422 |
| AdaNovo · quoted | 0.448 | 0.321 |
| AdaNovo · retrained | 0.430 | 0.356 |
| CausalNovo on †AdaNovo | 0.469 | 0.398 |
| π-HelixNovo · quoted | 0.473 | 0.366 |
| π-HelixNovo · retrained | 0.362 | 0.370 |
| CausalNovo on †π-HelixNovo | 0.513 | 0.427 |
Table3
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 6: Cross-species validation on the Ninespecies dataset. † denotes our retrained results.
| Nine-species benchmark | Amino acid precision | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Apis mellifera | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Vigna mungo | Solanum lycopersicum | |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.743 | 0.754 | 0.761 | 0.769 | 0.754 | 0.753 | 0.753 | 0.717 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.773 | 0.772 | 0.772 | 0.780 | 0.773 | 0.784 | 0.763 | 0.748 |
| Nine-species benchmark | Amino acid recall | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Apis mellifera | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Vigna mungo | Solanum lycopersicum | |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.745 | 0.752 | 0.757 | 0.770 | 0.754 | 0.752 | 0.755 | 0.716 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.774 | 0.773 | 0.774 | 0.779 | 0.776 | 0.782 | 0.763 | 0.752 |
| Nine-species benchmark | Peptide precision | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Apis mellifera | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Vigna mungo | Solanum lycopersicum | |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.559 | 0.544 | 0.554 | 0.575 | 0.558 | 0.558 | 0.549 | 0.506 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.584 | 0.578 | 0.578 | 0.587 | 0.580 | 0.595 | 0.557 | 0.545 |
| Nine-species benchmark | Peptide AUC | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Apis mellifera | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Vigna mungo | Solanum lycopersicum | |
| Casanovo · retrained | 0.523 | 0.509 | 0.519 | 0.540 | 0.532 | 0.521 | 0.510 | 0.464 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.551 | 0.544 | 0.545 | 0.553 | 0.544 | 0.560 | 0.521 | 0.506 |
Table8
CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework, page 16: Cross-species validation on the Seven-species dataset. † denotes our retrained results.
| Seven-species benchmark | Amino acid precision | Amino acid recall | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celegans | Ecoli. | Fruitfly | Homo sapiens | Mus musculus | Pseudomonas | Celegans | Ecoli. | Fruitfly | Homo sapiens | Mus musculus | Pseudomonas | |
| Casanovo | 0.436 | 0.407 | 0.435 | 0.418 | 0.496 | 0.425 | 0.439 | 0.412 | 0.438 | 0.421 | 0.496 | 0.437 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.512 | 0.511 | 0.503 | 0.507 | 0.534 | 0.502 | 0.513 | 0.514 | 0.513 | 0.509 | 0.536 | 0.502 |
| Seven-species benchmark | Peptide precision | Peptide AUC | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celegans | Ecoli. | Fruitfly | Homo sapiens | Mus musculus | Pseudomonas | Celegans | Ecoli. | Fruitfly | Homo sapiens | Mus musculus | Pseudomonas | |
| Casanovo | 0.220 | 0.208 | 0.222 | 0.210 | 0.268 | 0.227 | 0.174 | 0.165 | 0.179 | 0.167 | 0.223 | 0.188 |
| CausalNovo on †CasaNovo | 0.284 | 0.285 | 0.293 | 0.292 | 0.299 | 0.281 | 0.234 | 0.241 | 0.250 | 0.247 | 0.256 | 0.242 |
Paper describing it
- CausalNovo: Advancing De Novo Peptide Sequencing via a Causality-Informed Framework (2026, OpenReview, preprint)