Cracking the Mass Spectrometry Code: Artificial intelligence for de novo peptide sequencing

29 Jan 2026
Proteogenomics & Translational Omics Stage
  • AI is revolutionizing de novo peptide sequencing, enabling deep learning models to decode MS/MS spectra into amino acid sequences—without relying on reference proteomes. 

  • I'll introduce Casanovo, a transformer-based model that delivers state-of-the-art performance, accuracy, and generalizability across a range of proteomics applications. 

  • To accelerate innovation, I'll present a community benchmarking effort that reveals where current tools excel—and where they still fall short—empowering both developers and practitioners to push the field forward. 

Speakers
Wout Bittremieux
Wout Bittremieux, Assistant Research Professor - University of Antwerp