SWPepNovo: An Efficient De Novo Peptide Sequencing Tool for Large-scale MS/MS Spectra Analysis

peer-reviewed · International Journal of Biological Sciences · 2019

peer-reviewed · International Journal of Biological Sciences · 2019. Chuang Li et al. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based de novo peptide sequencing is a powerful method for high-throughput…
Date 2019-07-03
Type peer-reviewed
Venue International Journal of Biological Sciences
Publisher Ivyspring International Publisher
Contribution algorithm
DOI 10.7150/ijbs.32142
Citations (OpenAlex) 12

Abstract

Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)-based de novo peptide sequencing is a powerful method for high-throughput protein analysis. However, the explosively increasing size of MS/MS spectra dataset inevitably and exponentially raises the computational demand of existing de novo peptide sequencing methods, which is an issue urgently to be solved in computational biology. This paper introduces an efficient tool based on SW26010 many-core processor, namely SWPepNovo, to process the large-scale peptide MS/MS spectra using a parallel peptide spectrum matches (PSMs) algorithm. Our design employs a two-level parallelization mechanism: (1) the task-level parallelism between MPEs using MPI based on a data transformation method and a dynamic feedback task scheduling algorithm, (2) the thread-level parallelism across CPEs using asynchronous task transfer and multithreading. Moreover, three optimization strategies, including vectorization, double buffering and memory access optimizations, have been employed to overcome both the compute-bound and the memory-bound bottlenecks in the parallel PSMs algorithm. The results of experiments conducted on multiple spectra datasets demonstrate the performance of SWPepNovo against three state-of-the-art tools for peptide sequencing, including PepNovo+, PEAKS and DeepNovo-DIA. The SWPepNovo also shows high scalability in experiments on extremely large datasets sized up to 11.22 GB. The software and the parameter settings are available at https://github.com/ChuangLi99/SWPepNovo.

Authors

  1. Chuang Li · Hunan University
  2. Kenli Li · Hunan University
  3. Keqin Li · Hunan University, State University of New York
  4. Xianghui Xie · Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology
  5. Feng Lin · Nanyang Technological University

Methods and tools

  • SWPepNovo: Parallelises a PepNovo-style scoring search across the Sunway many-core architecture, using a two-level task partition and a load-balancing scheme to keep the compute elements busy. Targets the case where the spectrum dataset, not the algorithm, is the bottleneck. From the same Hunan group as MRUniNovo.

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