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MassSpecGym: A benchmark for the discovery and identification of molecules

Neural Information Processing Systems

The discovery and identification of molecules in biological and environmental samples is crucial for advancing biomedical and chemical sciences. Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is the leading technique for high-throughput elucidation of molecular structures. However, decoding a molecular structure from its mass spectrum is exceptionally challenging, even when performed by human experts. As a result, the vast majority of acquired MS/MS spectra remain uninterpreted, thereby limiting our understanding of the underlying (bio)chemical processes. Despite decades of progress in machine learning applications for predicting molecular structures from MS/MS spectra, the development of new methods is severely hindered by the lack of standard datasets and evaluation protocols. To address this problem, we propose MassSpecGym -- the first comprehensive benchmark for the discovery and identification of molecules from MS/MS data. Our benchmark comprises the largest publicly available collection of high-quality MS/MS spectra and defines three MS/MS annotation challenges: \textit{de novo} molecular structure generation, molecule retrieval, and spectrum simulation. It includes new evaluation metrics and a generalization-demanding data split, therefore standardizing the MS/MS annotation tasks and rendering the problem accessible to the broad machine learning community.


Supplementary Materials of Learning-to-Rank Meets Language: Boosting Language-Driven Ordering Alignment for Ordinal Classification

Neural Information Processing Systems

This supplementary material begins with a comprehensive visualization of the datasets central to our study. The specifics of our experimental settings are subsequently outlined in Section 1.2. Section 1.1 features an expanded analysis, including results from ablation studies. A key highlight of this section is the visual interpretation of the CLIP image features facilitated by t-SNE [6]. Concurrently, a comparative analysis is conducted, comparing the efficacy of interpolation-based strategies with our learning-based methods(i.e.