PGPointNovo: an efficient neural network-based tool for parallel de novo peptide sequencing.

Summary: De novo peptide sequencing for tandem mass spectrometry data is not only a key technology for novel peptide identification, but also a precedent task for many downstream tasks, such as vaccine and antibody studies. In recent years, neural network models for de novo peptide sequencing have manifested a remarkable ability to accommodate various data sources and outperformed conventional peptide identification tools. However, the excellent model is computationally expensive, taking up to 1 week to process about 400 000 spectrums. This article presents PGPointNovo, a novel neural network-based tool for parallel de novo peptide sequencing. PGPointNovo uses data parallelization technology to accelerate training and inference and optimizes the training obstacles caused by large batch sizes. The results of extensive experiments conducted on multiple datasets of different sizes demonstrate that compared with PointNovo the excellent neural network-based de novo peptide sequencing tool, PGPointNovo, accelerates de novo peptide sequencing by up to 7.35× without precision or recall compromises. Availability and implementation: The source code and the parameter settings are available at https://github.com/shallFun4Learning/PGPointNovo. Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics Advances online.

An antibacterial peptides recognition method based on BERT and Text-CNN / 生物工程学报

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are small molecule peptides that are widely found in living organisms with broad-spectrum antibacterial activity and immunomodulatory effect. Due to slower emergence of resistance, excellent clinical potential and wide range of application, AMP is a strong alternative to conventional antibiotics. AMP recognition is a significant direction in the field of AMP research. The high cost, low efficiency and long period shortcomings of the wet experiment methods prevent it from meeting the need for the large-scale AMP recognition. Therefore, computer-aided identification methods are important supplements to AMP recognition approaches, and one of the key issues is how to improve the accuracy. Protein sequences could be approximated as a language composed of amino acids. Consequently, rich features may be extracted using natural language processing (NLP) techniques. In this paper, we combine the pre-trained model BERT and the fine-tuned structure Text-CNN in the field of NLP to model protein languages, develop an open-source available antimicrobial peptide recognition tool and conduct a comparison with other five published tools. The experimental results show that the optimization of the two-phase training approach brings an overall improvement in accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and Matthew correlation coefficient, offering a novel approach for further research on AMP recognition.