⚖️ Best AI tools for Proteomics & metabolomics (2026)

Mass-spec proteomics and metabolomics: DIA search, spectrum and retention-time prediction, de novo peptide sequencing and metabolite annotation.

12 tools · 10 open source · each entry links to its website, code and paper.

Dated by release date, else first public paper, preprint or release date; undated tools listed after, A–Z.

DreaMS

Self-supervised transformer foundation model for tandem mass spectra of small molecules.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#metabolomics#foundation-model

InstaNovo

Transformer and diffusion models for de novo peptide sequencing from tandem mass spectra.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#de-novo#diffusion

AlphaDIA

Feature-free DIA proteomics search engine with transfer learning from AlphaPeptDeep.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#dia#mass-spec

Casanovo

Transformer for de novo peptide sequencing directly from MS/MS spectra.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#de-novo#transformer

Deep learning framework predicting peptide MS2 spectra, retention time and CCS for proteomics.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#mass-spec#spectrum-prediction

MS2DeepScore

Siamese neural network predicting structural similarity between MS/MS spectra for metabolomics.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#metabolomics#similarity

matchms

Python library for importing, cleaning and comparing mass spectra for metabolomics.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#metabolomics#library

DeepLC

Deep learning retention-time predictor that generalizes to unseen peptide modifications.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#retention-time#mass-spec

SIRIUS

Metabolomics software for molecular formula and structure annotation from MS/MS with CSI:FingerID and CANOPUS.

Proteomics & metabolomicsFree (research)#metabolomics#annotation

MS2PIP

Predicts peptide fragmentation spectra (and with DeepLC/IM2Deep) for spectral libraries and rescoring.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#mass-spec#spectrum-prediction

DIA-NN

Neural-network-powered data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics processing software.

Proteomics & metabolomicsFree (research)#dia#mass-spec

Open-source platform for LC-MS and imaging-MS data processing in metabolomics.

Proteomics & metabolomicsOpen source#metabolomics#lc-ms