π-SPECFormer: A Mass Spectrometry-based Foundation Model for Decoding the Dark Proteome
Tianze Ling, Tao Liu, Fan Xu, Yiming Zhang, Jun Xia, Xiansong Huang, Shaorong Chen, Linhai Xie, Rong Xu, Tingpeng Yang, Kaixuan Li, Guibin Wang, Zhendong Liang, Jun Zhu, Stan Z. Li, , Cheng Chang
This paper introduces π-SPECFormer, a foundation model for mass spectrometry-based proteomics that decodes the dark proteome by pre-training on unannotated spectra and outperforms baselines in peptide sequencing and modification detection.
bioRxiv · Nov 9, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics