Desktop iDMS: A stand-alone application of intelligent differential mobility spectrometry (iDMS), a neural net-work that predicts optimal separation and compensa-tion voltages for field asymmetric differential ion mobil-ity spectrometry
- 1University of Ottawa
Abstract
Mass spectrometry resolution of glycosphingolipids requires advanced separation methods. The virtual-ly identical structures of glycolipid epimers cannot be discriminated by routine multiple reaction monitoring-high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (MRM-LC-ESI-MS/MS). Sep-aration can be achieved using field asymmetric (differential) ion mobility mass spectrometry (FAIMS/DMS). A major bottleneck to MRM-LC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS method development lies in manually optimizing the compound-dependent parameters of separation voltage (SV) and compensation voltage (CoV). To address this challenge, we developed intelligent Differential Mobility Spectrometry (iDMS). iDMS is a supervised deep neural network that evaluates and predicts the optimal ion mobility SV and CoV parameters for any user-requested monoglycosphingolipid from a training set of measured signal intensities composed of 12 lipids (6 stereoisomer pairs). We initially introduced iDMS as a series of python scripts. Here, we share desktop applications of both iDMS and its pre-processing input data assembly modules (DMS Data Extraction Toolkit). Both software assemblies enable users to rapidly deploy a validated machine learning alternative to manual DMS optimization. The applications are user-friendly, operate with-out need for any technical operating environment, make training dataset assembly quick and simple, and return measured, normalized, and predicted ionograms at every user-interrogated SV, evaluation of separability at each SV and CoV combination, and prediction of optimal resolution parameters to accelerate users MRM-LC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS deployment. Availability and implementation: Desktop iDMS and DMS Data Extraction Toolkit are native desktop applications for macOS (Apple Silicon), freely available for download at https://www.neurolipidomics.com/platforms.html under the GNU v3.0 license. The source code is available from GitHub and Zenodo at https://github.com/Neurolipidomics/iDMS, https://zenodo.org/records/22214408, https://github.com/Neurolipidomics/DMSDataExtractionToolkit, and https://zenodo.org/records/22777403. Bench-marking metrics are available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.747394v1.
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BibTeX
@misc{nguyentran2026desktop,
title = {{Desktop iDMS: A stand-alone application of intelligent differential mobility spectrometry (iDMS), a neural net-work that predicts optimal separation and compensa-tion voltages for field asymmetric differential ion mobil-ity spectrometry}},
author = {T. Nguyen-Tran and E. Hashimoto-Roth and X.-X. Shi and M. G. Organ and T. J. Perkins and M. Lavallee-Adam and S. A. L. Bennett},
howpublished = {bioRxiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.64898/2026.10.02.756329},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.756329v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Desktop iDMS: A stand-alone application of intelligent differential mobility spectrometry (iDMS), a neural net-work that predicts optimal separation and compensa-tion voltages for field asymmetric differential ion mobil-ity spectrometry
AU - T. Nguyen-Tran
AU - E. Hashimoto-Roth
AU - X.-X. Shi
AU - M. G. Organ
AU - T. J. Perkins
AU - M. Lavallee-Adam
AU - S. A. L. Bennett
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/02
PB - bioRxiv
DO - 10.64898/2026.10.02.756329
UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.02.756329v1
AB - Mass spectrometry resolution of glycosphingolipids requires advanced separation methods. The virtual-ly identical structures of glycolipid epimers cannot be discriminated by routine multiple reaction monitoring-high-performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry (MRM-LC-ESI-MS/MS). Sep-aration can be achieved using field asymmetric (differential) ion mobility mass spectrometry (FAIMS/DMS). A major bottleneck to MRM-LC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS method development lies in manually optimizing the compound-dependent parameters of separation voltage (SV) and compensation voltage (CoV). To address this challenge, we developed intelligent Differential Mobility Spectrometry (iDMS). iDMS is a supervised deep neural network that evaluates and predicts the optimal ion mobility SV and CoV parameters for any user-requested monoglycosphingolipid from a training set of measured signal intensities composed of 12 lipids (6 stereoisomer pairs). We initially introduced iDMS as a series of python scripts. Here, we share desktop applications of both iDMS and its pre-processing input data assembly modules (DMS Data Extraction Toolkit). Both software assemblies enable users to rapidly deploy a validated machine learning alternative to manual DMS optimization. The applications are user-friendly, operate with-out need for any technical operating environment, make training dataset assembly quick and simple, and return measured, normalized, and predicted ionograms at every user-interrogated SV, evaluation of separability at each SV and CoV combination, and prediction of optimal resolution parameters to accelerate users MRM-LC-ESI-DMS-MS/MS deployment. Availability and implementation: Desktop iDMS and DMS Data Extraction Toolkit are native desktop applications for macOS (Apple Silicon), freely available for download at https://www.neurolipidomics.com/platforms.html under the GNU v3.0 license. The source code is available from GitHub and Zenodo at https://github.com/Neurolipidomics/iDMS, https://zenodo.org/records/22214408, https://github.com/Neurolipidomics/DMSDataExtractionToolkit, and https://zenodo.org/records/22777403. Bench-marking metrics are available at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.747394v1.
ER -