AdaNovo: Adaptive De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Conditional Mutual Information

preprint · ICML 2024 · 2024

preprint · ICML 2024 · 2024. Jun Xia et al. Tandem mass spectrometry has played a pivotal role in advancing proteomics, enabling the analysis of protein…
Date 2024-03-09
Type preprint
Venue ICML 2024
Publisher arXiv
Contribution algorithm
DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2403.07013
Citations (OpenAlex) 2

Abstract

Tandem mass spectrometry has played a pivotal role in advancing proteomics, enabling the analysis of protein composition in biological samples. Despite the development of various deep learning methods for identifying amino acid sequences (peptides) responsible for observed spectra, challenges persist in \emph{de novo} peptide sequencing. Firstly, prior methods struggle to identify amino acids with post-translational modifications (PTMs) due to their lower frequency in training data compared to canonical amino acids, further resulting in decreased peptide-level identification precision. Secondly, diverse types of noise and missing peaks in mass spectra reduce the reliability of training data (peptide-spectrum matches, PSMs). To address these challenges, we propose AdaNovo, a novel framework that calculates conditional mutual information (CMI) between the spectrum and each amino acid/peptide, using CMI for adaptive model training. Extensive experiments demonstrate AdaNovo’s state-of-the-art performance on a 9-species benchmark, where the peptides in the training set are almost completely disjoint from the peptides of the test sets. Moreover, AdaNovo excels in identifying amino acids with PTMs and exhibits robustness against data noise. The supplementary materials contain the official code.

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  1. Jun Xia · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Westlake University
  2. Shaorong Chen · Westlake University, Zhejiang University
  3. Jingbo Zhou · Westlake University, Zhejiang University
  4. Tianze Ling · Beijing Institute of Lifeomics, State Key Laboratory of Medical Proteomics, Tsinghua University
  5. Wenjie Du · Westlake University
  6. Sizhe Liu · University of Southern California, Westlake University
  7. Stan Z. Li · Westlake University

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