Improvements to Casanovo, a deep learning de novo peptidesequencer

Abstract

Casanovo is a state-of-the-art deep learning model for de novo peptide sequencing from mass spectrometry proteomics data. Here we report on a series of enhancements to Casanovo, aimed at improving the interpretability of the scores assigned to predicted peptides, generalizing the software for use in database search, speeding up training and prediction runtimes, and providing workflows and visualization tools to facilitate adoption of Casanovo and interpretation of its results. Our goal is to make Casanovo accurate and easy to use for applications such as metaproteomics, antibody sequencing, immunopeptidomics, and discovery of novel peptide sequences in standard proteomics analyses. Casanovo is available as open source at https://github.com/Noble-Lab/casanovo.