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The impact of noise and missing fragmentation cleavages on de novo peptide identification algorithms

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DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.03.008

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De novo peptide sequencing; Machine learning; Peptide identification; Noise; Fragmentation cleavage sites; Peptide fragmentation

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  1. Irish Research Council [GOIPG/2019/1650]

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Proteomics is a technique used to study system-wide protein expression, which has wide ranging applications and impacts every area of biology. De novo peptide sequencing, a popular method, is improving with the integration of machine learning. This research evaluates two algorithms for de novo peptide sequencing and explores the characteristics of tandem mass spectra. The study highlights the challenges of missing cleavage sites and noise, and provides recommendations for algorithm improvements.
Proteomics aims to characterise system-wide protein expression and typically relies on massspectrometry and peptide fragmentation, followed by a database search for protein identification. It has wide ranging applications from clinical to environmental settings and virtually impacts on every area of biology. In that context, de novo peptide sequencing is becoming increasingly popular. Historically its performance lagged behind database search methods but with the integration of machine learning, this field of research is gaining momentum. To enable de novo peptide sequencing to realise its full potential, it is critical to explore the mass spectrometry data underpinning peptide identification. In this research we investigate the characteristics of tandem mass spectra using 8 published datasets. We then evaluate two state of the art de novo peptide sequencing algorithms, Novor and DeepNovo, with a particular focus on their performance with regard to missing fragmentation cleavage sites and noise. DeepNovo was found to perform better than Novor overall. However, Novor recalled more correct amino acids when 6 or more cleavage sites were missing. Furthermore, less than 11% of each algorithms' correct peptide predictions emanate from data with more than one missing cleavage site, highlighting the issues missing cleavages pose. We further investigate how the algorithms manage to correctly identify peptides with many of these missing fragmentation cleavages. We show how noise negatively impacts the performance of both algorithms, when high intensity peaks are considered. Finally, we provide recommendations regarding further algorithms' improvements and offer potential avenues to overcome current inherent data limitations. (c) 2022 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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