Deep3DCCS: Geometry-Driven Collision Cross Section Prediction from Multi-View Molecular Projection Tensors.
6 affiliations
- 1Siriraj Center of Research Excellence in Metabolomics and Systems Biology (SiCORE-MSB), Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok10700, Thailand.
- 2Siriraj Metabolomics and Phenomics Center, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok10700, Thailand.
- 3Thailand Metabolomics Society, Bangkok10700, Thailand.
- 4Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok10700, Thailand.
- 5Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok10700, Thailand.
- 6Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry (PERCH-CIC), Faculty of Science Mahidol University, Bangkok10400, Thailand.
Abstract
Collision cross section (CCS) measurements from ion mobility-mass spectrometry improve confidence in molecular identification in metabolomics and lipidomics and reduce false-positive annotations in untargeted analyses. However, experimental CCS coverage remains incomplete, and accurate computational prediction remains needed. Here, we present Deep3DCCS, a geometry-driven deep learning framework that predicts CCS from stacked multi-angle molecular projection tensors using a three-dimensional convolutional neural network operating across the projection-view and two spatial image dimensions. Three-dimensional molecular structures generated from SMILES strings were rotated around the x, y, and z-axes, converted into binary two-dimensional projections, and assembled into standardized multi-view tensors for CCS regression. Deep3DCCS was developed and evaluated using curated AllCCS and METLIN lipid CCS datasets containing 3948 molecule-adduct entries across [M - H]-, [M + H]+, and [M + Na]+ ions, and input optimization identified 32 × 32 pixel projections with five rotations per axis as a practical balance between prediction accuracy, model stability, and computational feasibility. In independent true-validation experiments, AllCCS-trained models achieved MRPE values of 3.27-3.79% on AllCCS validation data and 2.93-3.72% on METLIN validation data, whereas METLIN-trained models transferred less effectively to the broader AllCCS chemical space. Overall, these results support multi-view molecular projection tensors as a viable geometry-driven representation for CCS prediction and demonstrate that substantial CCS-relevant information can be learned directly from three-dimensional molecular morphology using a 3DCNN architecture, with low single-digit prediction errors across independent and cross-dataset validation experiments.
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BibTeX
@article{wisanpitayakorn2026deep3dccs,
title = {{Deep3DCCS: Geometry-Driven Collision Cross Section Prediction from Multi-View Molecular Projection Tensors.}},
author = {Pattipong Wisanpitayakorn and Vivek Bhakta Mathema and Kwanjeera Wanichthanarak and Thanyanatthamon Keawhawong and Narumol Jariyasopit and Pairash Saiviroonporn and Trongtum Tongdee and Yongyut Sirivatanauksorn and Sakda Khoomrung},
journal = {Journal of chemical information and modeling},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.1021/acs.jcim.6c00371},
url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42906041},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Deep3DCCS: Geometry-Driven Collision Cross Section Prediction from Multi-View Molecular Projection Tensors.
AU - Pattipong Wisanpitayakorn
AU - Vivek Bhakta Mathema
AU - Kwanjeera Wanichthanarak
AU - Thanyanatthamon Keawhawong
AU - Narumol Jariyasopit
AU - Pairash Saiviroonporn
AU - Trongtum Tongdee
AU - Yongyut Sirivatanauksorn
AU - Sakda Khoomrung
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
JO - Journal of chemical information and modeling
DO - 10.1021/acs.jcim.6c00371
UR - https://europepmc.org/article/MED/42906041
AB - Collision cross section (CCS) measurements from ion mobility-mass spectrometry improve confidence in molecular identification in metabolomics and lipidomics and reduce false-positive annotations in untargeted analyses. However, experimental CCS coverage remains incomplete, and accurate computational prediction remains needed. Here, we present Deep3DCCS, a geometry-driven deep learning framework that predicts CCS from stacked multi-angle molecular projection tensors using a three-dimensional convolutional neural network operating across the projection-view and two spatial image dimensions. Three-dimensional molecular structures generated from SMILES strings were rotated around the x, y, and z-axes, converted into binary two-dimensional projections, and assembled into standardized multi-view tensors for CCS regression. Deep3DCCS was developed and evaluated using curated AllCCS and METLIN lipid CCS datasets containing 3948 molecule-adduct entries across [M - H]-, [M + H]+, and [M + Na]+ ions, and input optimization identified 32 × 32 pixel projections with five rotations per axis as a practical balance between prediction accuracy, model stability, and computational feasibility. In independent true-validation experiments, AllCCS-trained models achieved MRPE values of 3.27-3.79% on AllCCS validation data and 2.93-3.72% on METLIN validation data, whereas METLIN-trained models transferred less effectively to the broader AllCCS chemical space. Overall, these results support multi-view molecular projection tensors as a viable geometry-driven representation for CCS prediction and demonstrate that substantial CCS-relevant information can be learned directly from three-dimensional molecular morphology using a 3DCNN architecture, with low single-digit prediction errors across independent and cross-dataset validation experiments.
SN - 1549-9596
SN - 1549-960X
ER -