用流匹配方法从质谱图生成分子结构,精度领先。
FlowMS: Flow Matching for De Novo Structure Elucidation from Mass Spectra
- 基于概率空间迭代优化,结合质谱嵌入与化学式约束
- 在NPLIB1上达9.15%顶级准确率,优于现有模型4.2%以上
- 适合代谢组学与天然产物发现中的分子结构推断
质谱分析是分子鉴定的核心技术,但基于谱图的从头结构解析仍面临化学空间组合复杂与碎片模式歧义的挑战。尽管自回归模型、骨架生成和图扩散模型已有进展,基于扩散的方法仍计算开销大。离散流匹配在图生成中表现优异,但尚未用于谱图条件下的结构解析。本文提出FlowMS,首个谱图条件下的离散流匹配框架,通过概率空间迭代精炼生成分子图,同时满足化学式约束,并以预训练公式变换器编码谱图嵌入。在NPLIB1基准上,6项指标中有5项达当前最优:顶1准确率为9.15%(较DiffMS提升9.7%),顶10MCES为7.96(较MS-BART提升4.2%)。可视化结果表明生成分子结构合理,接近真实结构。这证明离散流匹配是质谱结构解析的有力新范式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Mass spectrometry (MS) stands as a cornerstone analytical technique for molecular identification, yet de novo structure elucidation from spectra remains challenging due to the combinatorial complexity of chemical space and the inherent ambiguity of spectral fragmentation patterns. Recent deep learning approaches, including autoregressive sequence models, scaffold-based methods, and graph diffusion models, have made progress. However, diffusion-based generation for this task remains computationally demanding. Meanwhile, discrete flow matching, which has shown strong performance for graph generation, has not yet been explored for spectrum-conditioned structure elucidation. In this work, we introduce FlowMS, the first discrete flow matching framework for spectrum-conditioned de novo molecular generation. FlowMS generates molecular graphs through iterative refinement in probability space, enforcing chemical formula constraints while conditioning on spectral embeddings from a pretrained formula transformer encoder. Notably, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on 5 out of 6 metrics on the NPLIB1 benchmark: 9.15% top-1 accuracy (9.7% relative improvement over DiffMS) and 7.96 top-10 MCES (4.2% improvement over MS-BART). We also visualize the generated molecules, which further demonstrate that FlowMS produces structurally plausible candidates closely resembling ground truth structures. These results establish discrete flow matching as a promising paradigm for mass spectrometry-based structure elucidation in metabolomics and natural product discovery.
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