{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/pepnet-a-fully-convolutional-neural-network","title":"PepNet: A Fully Convolutional Neural Network for De novo Peptide Sequencing","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2022-02-17","proceeding":"ResearchSquare 2022 2","authors":["Kaiyuan Liu","Yuzhen Ye","Haixu Tang"],"abstract":"The de novo peptide sequencing, which does not rely on a comprehensive target sequence database, provided us a way to identify novel peptides from tandem mass (MS/MS) spectra. However, current de novo sequencing algorithms suffer from lower accuracy and coverage, which hinders their applications in proteomics. In this paper, we present PepNet, a fully convolutional neural network (CNN) for high accuracy de novo peptide sequencing. It takes an MS/MS spectrum (represented as a high dimensional vector) as input, and outputs the optimal peptide sequence along with its confidence score. Our model was trained using a total of 30 million high-energy collisional dissociation (HCD) MS/MS spectra from multiple human peptide spectral libraries. The evaluation results show that PepNet significantly outperformed currently best-performing de novo sequencing algorithms (e.g. PointNovo and DeepNovo) at both peptide level accuracy and positional level accuracy. In addition, PepNet can sequence a large fraction of spectra that were not identified by database search engines, and thus could be used as a complementary tool of database search engines for peptide identification in proteomics.","url_abs":"https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1341615/v1","url_pdf":"https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1341615/v1_covered.pdf?c=1645108424","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"pepnet-a-fully-convolutional-neural-network","repo_url":"https://github.com/lkytal/PepNet","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"de-novo-peptide-sequencing","task_name":"de novo peptide sequencing"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}