FIORA: Local neighborhood-based prediction of compound mass spectra from single fragmentation events.

Journal: Nature communications
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Abstract

Non-targeted metabolomics holds great promise for advancing precision medicine and biomarker discovery. However, identifying compounds from tandem mass spectra remains a challenging task due to the incomplete nature of spectral reference libraries. Augmenting these libraries with simulated mass spectra can provide the necessary references to resolve unmatched spectra, but generating high-quality data is difficult. In this study, we present FIORA, an open-source graph neural network designed to simulate tandem mass spectra. Our main contribution lies in utilizing the molecular neighborhood of bonds to learn breaking patterns and derive fragment ion probabilities. FIORA not only surpasses state-of-the-art fragmentation algorithms, ICEBERG and CFM-ID, in prediction quality, but also facilitates the prediction of additional features, such as retention time and collision cross section. Utilizing GPU acceleration, FIORA enables rapid validation of putative compound annotations and large-scale expansion of spectral reference libraries with high-quality predictions.

Authors

  • Yannek Nowatzky
    Section VP.1 eScience, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany.
  • Francesco Friedrich Russo
    Department of Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, Organic Trace Analysis and Food Analysis, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany.
  • Jan Lisec
    Department of Analytical Chemistry and Reference Materials, Organic Trace Analysis and Food Analysis, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany.
  • Alexander Kister
    Section VP.1 eScience, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany.
  • Knut Reinert
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Thilo Muth
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
  • Philipp Benner
    Section VP.1 eScience, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany. philipp.benner@bam.de.