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

Aug 12, 2026 - Pengzhi Mao with his collaborators recently published three articles, including "Mapping the architecture of protein complexes in Arabidopsis using cross-linking mass spectrometry" on PNAS, "To cleave or not to cleave: a systemic evaluation of DSS versus DSSO for cross-linking mass spectrometry analysis" on Molecular Systems Biology, and "Stepped collisional energy improves protein acylation identification by eliminating positional bias of cyclic immonium ions" on Communications Chemistry.

July 24, 2026 - The pFind team held its semi-annual meeting. All pFinders summarized and reported their work in the first half of 2026.

July, 2026 - Professor Hao Chi attended the 2026 Chinese Agricultural Proteomics Symposium held in Kunming, Yunnan.

July, 2026 - Chen Qian and her colleagues published an article entitled "Advancing proteomic discovery through optimized multi-stage scoring and deep learning-enhanced open search" on Bioinformatics.

June, 2026 - Kaifei Wang and her colleagues published an article entitled "pAnno: a comprehensive, precise, and fast proteogenomic workflow for the discovery of novel coding regions" on Genome Biology.

May 25, 2026 - Jiale Zhao and his colleagues published an article entitled "A large-scale unified deep learning model for peptide mass spectrum interpretation trained on multimodal data" on Nature Machine Intelligence.

May 17, 2026 - Ph.D. student Kaifei Wang passed the dissertation defense.

May 15, 2026 - Master student Chen Qian passed the dissertation defense.

May 13, 2026 - Master student Yapeng Yuan passed the dissertation defense.

May 6-7, 2026 - Prof. Hao Chi, Weisa Kong, and Benqing Duan attended the project implementation kick-off meeting for the National Key R&D Program "Frontier Technologies of High-Throughput Ultrasensitive Single-Cell Proteomics" at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS.