pFind Studio: a computational solution for mass spectrometry-based proteomics

Apr 24, 2025 - Our paper Global analysis of protein and small-molecule substrates of ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs) has been published on Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.

Mar 30, 2025 - The pFind team climbed the Longquan section of Great Wall.

Mar 22, 2025 - The pFind team organized the Life and Health Sub-forum of the ICT's AI4S symposium.

Feb 11, 2025 - The pFind team came together to celebrate the Lantern Festival.

Jan 22, 2025 - The pFind team held its annual meeting. All pFinders summarized and reported their work in 2024.

Dec 7, 2024 - The pFind team held a team-building activity, where pFinders enjoyed a harmonious atmosphere and had some pleasant chats.

Nov 26, 2024 - pFinders organized a small seminar, and Yong-Qing Tan (谭永卿) and Kai-Fei Wang (王凯菲) presented their research proposals.

Oct 25-26, 2024 - pFinders participated in a joint meeting and visited Beijing WTown (古北水镇) with their partners from Chao Liu (刘超) Lab of BUAA.

Sep 25-27, 2024 - Hao Chi, Wen-Feng Zeng, Ya-Ping Peng and Peng-Zhi Mao gave presentations at Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, CAS.

Aug 12, 2024 - The pFind team held its semi-annual meeting. All pFinders summarized and reported their work in the first half of 2024.

Dec 29, 2023 - Our paper PepPre: Promote Peptide Identification Using Accurate and Comprehensive Precursors has been published on J. Proteome Res.

Nov 4, 2023 - Dr. Wen-Feng Zeng introduced his research and life status, and his return to Beijing led to a joyful reunion of pfinders!

Oct 17, 2023 - Professor Hao Chi taught a proteomics data analysis course at the Yanqi Lake Campus of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Sep 23-27, 2023 - pFinders attended the 12th CNHUPO and learned a lot. Kai-Fei Wang and Ya-Ping Peng won the Poster Award. And during these days, pFinders took the opportunity to visit the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding& Research Base to see cute pandas together.

Sep 1-3, 2023 - The CXMS training of CNCP-2023, co-hosted by the Meng-Qiu Dong (董梦秋) Lab of NIBS and pFind Team, has been successfully completed!

Dec 17 & 18, 2022 - All pfinders celebrated the 20th anniversary (2002-2022), and 13 speakers were invited to share their wonderful reports. Everyone who attended the meeting gave enthusiastic responses. Awaiting our upcoming reunion!

Dec 7, 2022 - Prof. Chao Liu's group and Dr. Wen-Feng Zeng published an article entitled "pGlycoQuant with a deep residual network for quantitative glycoproteomics at intact glycopeptide level" on Nature Communications.

Nov 24, 2022 - Dr. Wen-Feng Zeng published an article entitled "AlphaPeptDeep: a modular deep learning framework to predict peptide properties for proteomics" on Nature Communications.

Nov 21, 2022 - During the pandemic, thank UCAS for the gift bundle!

Oct 29, 2022 - Our paper A universal database reduction method based on the sequence tag strategy to facilitate large-scale database search in proteomics has been published on International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.

Dec 30, 2021 - pFinders participated in a joint meeting and visited Lakeside Great Wall (水长城) with their partners from Meng-Qiu Dong (董梦秋) Lab of NIBS.

Nov 25, 2021 - Our paper Precise, fast and comprehensive analysis of intact glycopeptides and modified glycans with pGlyco3 has been published on Nature Methods.

Nov 2, 2021 - Our paper pValid 2: A deep learning based validation method for peptide identification in shotgun proteomics with increased discriminating power has been published on Journal of Proteomics.

Oct 15, 2021 - Prof. He (贺思敏) and Prof. Chi (迟浩) won the Promotion of Science award of CNHUPO.

Sep 20, 2021 - pFinders celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival together.

December 4, 2020 - The pFinders attended the 2nd Westlake Symposium for Clinical Mass Spectrometry online.

October 30, 2020 - The pFinders attended the 2020 ICT-NIBS CXMS prospective academic seminar and communicated.

September 14, 2020 - Our paper GameTag: A New Sequence Tag Generation Algorithm Based on Cooperative Game Theory has been accepted for publication by Proteomics. Congratulations.

August 29, 2020 - The 10th Ann. Academic Forum of China Workshop on Computational Proteomics was held online.

August 25, 2020 - Master students Xinyi Xu and Xi Wang passed the dissertation defense online.

December 29-31, 2019 - Associate Professor Hao Chi and Master Student Zhuohong Wei visited Feng Ge's lab and communicated.

Dcember 22 28, 2019 - The pFind students attended the National Center for the Performing Arts Open Day and had fun.

November 28, 2019 - The pFind team listened to a concert of Andre Rieu online.

October 17-20, 2019 - The pFind team attended China National Computer Congress (CNCC) 2019. We won the first prize for Technical Invention Award. Congratulations.

September 4, 2019 - Master students Xin-Yi Xu and Zhuo-Hong Wei went bunjee jumping. Congratulations.

December 25-27, 2018 - Associate Professor Hao Chi and Ph.D. student Zhen-Lin Chen visited DICP and gave two reports about Open-pFind and pLink 2.

November 18, 2018 - Ph.D. student Zhen-Lin Chen attended the Bio-MS forum and gave a report.

pFinders attended the 10th CNHUPO. November 15-17, 2018 - pFinders attended the 10th CNHUPO. 

October 24, 2018 - Dr. Daniel Figeys from University of Ottawa visited the pFind team again and gave a report.

October 8, 2018 - Our paper Comprehensive identification of peptides in tandem mass spectra using an efficient open search engine has been accepted for publication by the Nature Biotechnology. Congratulations!

December 8-11, 2017 - pFinders attended the 3rd China Mass Spectrometry Symposium. Associate Professor Rui-Xiang Sun gave a report.

November 13, 2017 - Our paper pSite: Amino Acid Confidence Evaluation for Quality Control of De Novo Peptide Sequencing and Modification Site Localization has been accepted for publication by the Journal of proteome research.

November 10, 2017 - Our paper pDeep: Predicting MS/MS Spectra of Peptides with Deep Learning

November 8, 2017 - Dr. Yue Xuan and other friends from Thermo Fisher visited the pFind team and gave a report.

October 12, 2017 - Associate Professor Cheng Lin from Boston University visited the pFind team and gave a report.

December 26, 2016 - Our paper Open-pNovo: De Novo Peptide Sequencing with Thousands of Protein Modifications has been accepted for publication by the Journal of proteome research.

November 29, 2016 - Wen-Feng Zeng passed the dissertation defense. He studied glycoproteomics in the pFind team.

October 21, 2016 - Assistant Professor Xiaowen Liu from Indian University-Purdue University Indianapolis visited the pFind team.

September 21, 2016 - Professor David L. Tabb from Stellenbosch University visited the pFind team and gave a report.

August 19-20, 2016 - Hao Yang attended the 14th CJK Bioinformatics Training Course & Symposium.

November 22, 2015 - We held a small seminar on proteogenomics.

November 22, 2015 - Kun Zhang passed the dissertation defense.

October 17-19, 2015 - pFinders attended the 2nd CNMS. 

September 2, 2015 - Dr. Yuan Zhou from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS visited pFind team.

August 10-12, 2015 - Lan Luo attended the 13th CJK Bioinformatics Training Course.

Dec. 15, 2014 - Dr. Zuo-Fei Yuan returns home. He got Ph.D. degree in June, 2012. Now he works as a postdoctor at University of Pennsylvania.

Nov. 12-13, 2014 - The Third China Workshop on Computational Proteomics successfully completed.

June 17-21, 2014 - Kun Zhang attended Korea-Japan-China Bioinformatics Training Course.

June 14-20, 2014 - Shengbo Fan and Wu Long attended American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) 2014

May 19, 2014 - CNCP.ict.ac.cn is online now. 　　

Dec. 17, 2013 - 2013计算所生物信息组学术交流会在计算所四层召开。

Dec. 1, 2013 - Kun He and Long Wu get their Master Degrees!

Sep. 7, 2013 - The 8th CNHUPO Annual Congress successfully completed.

Apr. 8, 2013 - Dr. Bandeira and Jeong of UCSD visited pFinders.

Nov. 16, 2012 - The Second China Workshop on Computational Proteomics successfully completed.

Sep. 1, 2012 - The Tenth Uppsala Conference on Electron Capture and Transfer Dissociation is online.

Aug. 29, 2012 - CNCP.ict.ac.cn is online now. 　　

July 9, 2012 - The paper Identification of cross-linked peptides from complex samples has been published online in Nature Methods.

Jun. 27, 2012 - Dr. Zhi-Xin Tian of DICP visited pFinders.

Nov. 3, 2011 - Our paper pParse: a method for accurate determination of monoisotopic peaks in high-resolution mass spectra has been accepted for publication by the journal Proteomics.

Jun. 9, 2011 (Munich, Germany) - Zuo-Fei Yuan attended MaxQuant Summer School 2012.

Dec. 13, 2010 (Dalian, China)  - pFinders visited Dr. Li-Hua Zhang and Zhen Liang of DICP.

Nov. 30, 2010 - Dr. Marshall Bern visited pFinders.

Nov. 12, 2010 - The First China Workshop on Computational Proteomics successfully completed. We give thanks to all experts for their good presentations and to all participants for their support. Click here for more details.

Oct. 19, 2010 - Dr. Daniel Figeys and Hu-Zhou visited pFinders.

Oct. 11, 2010 - Dr. Peipei Ping visited pFinders.

Oct. 23, 2009 (Dalian, China) - pFinders visited Dr. Li-Hua Zhang and Zhen Liang of DICP.

Oct. 15, 2008 - John Yates visited pFinders and Dong Lab.