Efficient Peptide MRM Transition Prediction via Convolutional Hashing
摘要
We present a novel method for predicting multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) transitions for peptides in targeted proteomics. Our approach employs a hash-based representation inspired by convolutional neural networks, efficiently encoding peptide fragments as sparse count vectors that capture local sequence context. Using gradient-boosted decision trees, our method achieves mean Hits@5 scores of 3.4318 (hash-based) and 3.5405 (hybrid model with target frequency), significantly outperforming baselines. Transpiling trained models into Zig enables exceptional computational efficiency, with low memory usage (1180 kB) and a throughput of 388–451 peptides/second even on mobile devices, enabling lightweight, high-speed processing for scalable peptide MRM transition prediction in high-throughput proteomics workflows.