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ArticleNature methods2025

A transformer model for de novo sequencing of data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data.

Justin Sanders, Bo Wen, Paul A Rudnick, Richard S Johnson, Christine C Wu, Michael Riffle, Sewoong Oh, Michael J MacCoss, William Stafford Noble

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Justin SandersPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Bo WenDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2261-3150
Paul A RudnickSpectragen Informatics LLC, Bainbridge Island, WA, USA.
Richard S JohnsonDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8150-1338
Christine C WuDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Michael RiffleDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sewoong OhPaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Michael J MacCossDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-0256
William Stafford NoblePaul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. william-noble@uw.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7283-4715

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NSF | BIO | Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) 2245300ODNI | Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) W911NF2220059
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Abstract

A core computational challenge in the analysis of mass spectrometry data is the de novo sequencing problem, in which the generating amino acid sequence is inferred directly from an observed fragmentation spectrum without the use of a sequence database. Recently, deep learning models have made substantial advances in de novo sequencing by learning from massive datasets of high-confidence labeled mass spectra. However, these methods are designed primarily for data-dependent acquisition experiments. Over the past decade, the field of mass spectrometry has been moving toward using data-independent acquisition (DIA) protocols for the analysis of complex proteomic samples owing to their superior specificity and reproducibility. Hence, we present a de novo sequencing model called Cascadia, which uses a transformer architecture to handle the more complex data generated by DIA protocols. In comparisons with existing approaches for de novo sequencing of DIA data, Cascadia achieves substantially improved performance across a range of instruments and experimental protocols.

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Mass SpectrometryProteomicsSequence Analysis, ProteinAlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyDeep LearningHumansReproducibility of ResultsSoftware

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