Proteomics gets a billion-scale spectral corpus: MassNet holds 548 million PSMs and leads de novo sequencing across 15 species
Proteomics has plenty of public mass spectra, but mixed formats, missing metadata and a human-heavy species mix make them hard to train deep models on. MassNet gathers DDA data from 648 projects across 35 species, holds 548 million PSMs, and stores spectra in the tensor-based MSDT format with traceable metadata. On a benchmark spanning 15 species and 9.66 million PSMs, the XuanjiNovo model trained on this corpus reaches peptide recall of 0.45 on human and 0.68 on mouse data, and 0.25 on tomato, above the listed de novo sequencing models.