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iDeepLC: chemical structure information yields improved retention time prediction of peptides with unseen modifications

Created on 04 Nov 2025

Authors

Nameni, A., Declercq, A., Gabriels, R., Devreese, R., Degroeve, S., Martens, L., Bouwmeester, R.

Abstract

Deep learning has notably advanced the field of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based proteomics. Accurate prediction of peptide retention times significantly enhances our ability to match LC-MS data with the correct peptides and proteins , especially for DIA data. While numerous models predict peptide LC retention times with high accuracy, few can accurately predict the retention times of chemically modified peptides, particularly those with modifications not encountered during model training. In our previously developed DeepLC model, accurate predictions could be made for unseen modifications by leveraging the chemical composition of (modified) residues. Here, however, we present a further enhancement of this model based on chemical structural information. The resulting model, called iDeepLC, shows overall more accurate predictions, and better generalization performance for predicting the retention time of unseen modifications than DeepLC. iDeepLC is freely available as open-source software under the Apache2 license and can be found at https://github.com/CompOmics/iDeepLC.

Preprint server: bioRxiv
The authors list and abstract were imported from bioRxiv on 04 Nov 2025.

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