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fasta2speclib: generate MS²PIP-predicted spectral libraries

Introduction

The fasta2speclib pipeline allows you to generate an MS²PIP-predicted spectral library, starting from a FASTA file. Multiple parameters to adjust the comprehensiveness of the spectral library can be set in a JSON config file, such as digestion enzyme, precursor charges, modifications... The pipeline also allows you to easily create a predicted decoy spectral library (currently by reversing digested peptide sequences). All information on the usage of fasta2speclib and its parameters is listed below.

To use fasta2speclib, the installation of MS²PIP (and optionally of Elude, which is included with Percolator) is required. Instructions on how to install MS²PIP are detailed in the Extended Install Instructions. However, specific input formats (such as PEPREC) are not required for fasta2speclib, only a protein/proteome FASTA file.

fasta2speclib makes use of the Biopython (Cock et al.) library to read the FASTA file and of Pyteomics (Levitsky et al.) for the in silico protein digestion. If you use fasta2speclib and MS²PIP for your research please cite:

Gabriels, R., Martens, L., Degroeve, S. Updated MS²PIP web server delivers fast and accurate MS² peak intensity prediction for multiple fragmentation methods, instruments and labeling techniques. Nucleic Acids Research (2019)
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz299

fasta2speclib was first described in:

Van Puyvelde, B.*, Willems, S.*, Gabriels, R.*, Daled, S., De Clerck, L., Staes, A., Impens, F., Deforce, D., Martens, L., Degroeve, S., Dhaenens, M.§. Removing the Hidden Data Dependency of DIA with Predicted Spectral Libraries. Proteomics (2020)
doi: 10.1002/pmic.201900306

Usage

Command line interface

usage: fasta2speclib.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_FILENAME] [-c CONFIG_FILENAME]
                        fasta_filename

Create an MS2PIP-predicted spectral library, starting from a fasta file.

positional arguments:
  fasta_filename      Path to the fasta file containing protein sequences

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT_FILENAME  Name for output file(s) (if not given, derived from
                      input file)
  -c CONFIG_FILENAME  Name of configuration json file (default:
                      fasta2speclib_config.json)

Configuration file

All fasta2speclib settings need to be set in a JSON config file (by default fasta2speclib_config.json). It contains the following options:

Name Description Possible values Default value Data type
output_filetype Output file formats for spectral library msp, mgf, spectronaut, bibliospec (also for Skyline) and/or hdf ["msp"] array of strings
charges Precusor charges to include positive integer [2, 3] array of numbers
min_peplen Minimum length of peptides to include positive integer 8 number
max_pepmass Maximum peptide mass (in Dalton) to include positive integer 5000 number
missed_cleavages Number of missed cleavages to include positive integer 2 number
modifications Modifications to include. See below for more information see below modifications object object
ms2pip_model MS2PIP model to use for predictions see MS2PIPc documentation "HCD" string
decoy Also create decoy spectral library by reversing peptide sequences true, false true boolean
elude_model_file If not null, predict retention times with this ELUDE model* path/to/model.file or null null string or null
peprec_filter If not null, do not predict spectra for peptides present in this peprec path/to/peprec.file or null null string or null
batch_size To reduce memory consumption, the (still unmodified) peptides to predict are split-up into batches. A higher batch size is slightly faster, but requires more RAM. positive integer 5000 number
num_cpu Number of processes for multithreading positive integer 24 number

* For this functionality, ELUDE needs to be installed and callable with the command elude.

Modifications

Modified versions of peptides can be included in the predicted spectral library. For this, an array of modification objects needs to be entered into the JSON config file. Every modification needs the following parameters:

Name Description Type
name Name of the modifications, as it will appear in the output files. Using the PSI-MS modification names is recommended. string
unimod_accession UniMod accession number (required for ELUDE RT predictions). number
mass_shift Mass shift the modification introduces. number
amino_acid Amino acid on which the modification occurs. If the modification does not occur on a specific amino acid (e.g. N-terminal acetylation), this can be set to null. string or null
n_term If the modification only occurs on the N-terminus, set to true. This can be combined with a specifically set amino_acid (e.g. Glu->pyro-Glu only occurs on N-terminal glutamic acid). boolean
fixed Set to true if only the modified version of the peptide should be present in the spectral library (e.g. for Carbamidomethyl). boolean

Please take the following into account:

  • As is the case in the MS2PIPc configuration, if a modification occurs on multiple specific modifications (such as phosphorylation), a separate entry is required, each with a unique name (e.g. PhosphoS, PhosphoT, and PhosphoY) for every amino acid.
  • If no modifications should be included in the spectral library, the modifications object is an empty array ([]).
  • C-terminal modifications are not yet supported!
  • N-terminal modifications WITH specific first AA do not yet prevent other modifications to be added on that first AA. This means that the function will, for instance, combine Glu->pyro-Glu (combination of N-term and normal PTM) with other PTMS for Glu on the first AA, while this is not possible in reality!

Example configuration file

{
    "output_filetype":["msp", "mgf", "bibliospec", "hdf"],
    "charges":[2, 3],
    "min_peplen":8,
    "max_pepmass":5000,
    "missed_cleavages":2,
    "modifications":[
        {"name":"Glu->pyro-Glu", "unimod_accession":27, "mass_shift":-18.0153, "amino_acid":"E", "n_term":true, "fixed":false},
        {"name":"Gln->pyro-Glu", "unimod_accession":28, "mass_shift":-17.0305, "amino_acid":"Q", "n_term":true, "fixed":false},
        {"name":"Acetyl", "unimod_accession":1, "mass_shift":42.0367, "amino_acid":null, "n_term":true, "fixed":false},
        {"name":"Oxidation", "unimod_accession":35, "mass_shift":15.9994, "amino_acid":"M", "n_term":false, "fixed":false},
        {"name":"Carbamidomethyl", "unimod_accession":4, "mass_shift":57.0513, "amino_acid":"C", "n_term":false, "fixed":true}
    ],
    "ms2pip_model":"HCD",
    "decoy":true,
    "elude_model_file":null,
    "peprec_filter":null,
    "batch_size":5000,
    "num_cpu":24
}
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