Prime-DiffNovo
algorithm · Transformer (NAR)
Non-autoregressive Transformer de novo peptide sequencer with a diffusion-based refinement step at inference time: the NAR pass drafts a full sequence in parallel, and the diffusion loop iteratively corrects residue predictions to sharpen accuracy.
| Kind | algorithm |
| Deep learning | yes |
| Family | Transformer (NAR) |
Reported comparisons (2)
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.
Table 1 (Nine-species · original (DeepNovo, 2017))
Prime-DiffNovo: Accurate Peptide De Novo Sequencing via Non-autoregressive Generation and Diffusion Refinement, page 8: Peptide accuracy comparison of different de novo peptide sequencing methods across nine species on two benchmark datasets.
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Nine-species benchmark original (DeepNovo, 2017) |
Peptide accuracy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apis mellifera | Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Solanum lycopersicum | Vigna mungo | Weighted average | |
| InstaNovo v1.1 | 0.526 | 0.629 | 0.444 | 0.506 | 0.571 | 0.509 | 0.602 | 0.615 | 0.613 | 0.565 |
| InstaNovo+ v1.1 | 0.555 | 0.662 | 0.475 | 0.516 | 0.596 | 0.525 | 0.634 | 0.642 | 0.662 | 0.593 |
| π-PrimeNovo | 0.592 | 0.697 | 0.511 | 0.566 | 0.627 | 0.558 | 0.688 | 0.679 | 0.678 | 0.630 |
| Prime-DiffNovo | 0.607 | 0.716 | 0.526 | 0.572 | 0.644 | 0.566 | 0.698 | 0.690 | 0.709 | 0.645 |
Table 1 (Nine-species · revised (main))
Prime-DiffNovo: Accurate Peptide De Novo Sequencing via Non-autoregressive Generation and Diffusion Refinement, page 8: Peptide accuracy comparison of different de novo peptide sequencing methods across nine species on two benchmark datasets.
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Nine-species benchmark revised (main) |
Peptide accuracy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apis mellifera | Bacillus subtilis | Candidatus Thiodiazotropha endoloripes | Homo sapiens | Methanosarcina mazei | Mus musculus | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Solanum lycopersicum | Vigna mungo | Weighted average | |
| InstaNovo v1.1 | 0.625 | 0.704 | 0.512 | 0.670 | 0.666 | 0.504 | 0.758 | 0.721 | 0.679 | 0.698 |
| InstaNovo+ v1.1 | 0.646 | 0.731 | 0.545 | 0.687 | 0.691 | 0.523 | 0.779 | 0.743 | 0.704 | 0.723 |
| π-PrimeNovo | 0.602 | 0.702 | 0.549 | 0.704 | 0.681 | 0.537 | 0.671 | 0.699 | 0.731 | 0.682 |
| Prime-DiffNovo | 0.658 | 0.751 | 0.581 | 0.733 | 0.717 | 0.566 | 0.817 | 0.771 | 0.748 | 0.749 |
Paper describing it
- Prime-DiffNovo: Accurate Peptide De Novo Sequencing via Non-autoregressive Generation and Diffusion Refinement (2026, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISBRA 2026), peer-reviewed)