Orthrus: an AI-powered, cloud-ready, and open-source hybrid approach for metaproteomics
preprint · bioRxiv · 2024
preprint · bioRxiv · 2024. Yun Chiang et al. While metaproteomics provides invaluable insight into microbial communities and functions, significant…
| Date | 2024-11-15 |
| Type | preprint |
| Venue | bioRxiv |
| Publisher | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
| Contribution | downstream-application |
| DOI | 10.1101/2024.11.15.623814 |
| Citations (OpenAlex) | 5 |
Abstract
While metaproteomics provides invaluable insight into microbial communities and functions, significant bioinformatics challenges persist due to data complexity and the limitations of database searching. Orthrus is a hybrid approach combining transformer-based de novo sequencing with Casanovo and database searching with Sage plus Mokapot rescoring. Benchmarking against PEAKS 11, MaxQuant, and MetaNovo demonstrated high peptide outputs, taxonomic diversity, and proteome coverage. Orthrus is Python-based and accessible via Google Colaboratory.
Methods and tools
- Orthrus: Open-source metaproteomics pipeline combining Casanovo transformer-based de novo sequencing with Sage database search and Mokapot rescoring.