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Technical explainers, publications, guides, and perspectives on proteomics data analysis and biological discovery.

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We're not a black box.

Scientists ask hard questions about how Tesorai generates more identifications. We think that's exactly right. These explainers answer them directly — written for scientists, with the data to back it up.

Tesorai

July 22, 2026

What is Proteomics? A guide to Mass Spectrometry, Search Engines, and Data Acquisition

From how proteins are measured to why the software that analyzes the data matters as mush as the instrument that generates it.

Tesorai

July 22, 2026

Revealing the Functional Landscape of RNA Editing

How UCSF researchers used deep proteomics and AI-enabled peptide identification to map 7.998 protien-verified RNA editing sites - an 18-fold increase over previously reported evidence.

Tesorai

July 21, 2026

The Publication Bottleneck: Lossy compression in the Age of Omics

Valuable biological information is lost in the practice of publishing our work.

Charlie Kim

June 10, 2026

Get started

Learn how to set up your first analysis with Tesorai Search. This guide walks you through uploading your data, running a search, and reviewing the results.

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Peter Cimermancic

July 23, 2025

Spectrum and peptide sequence are sufficient for top-tier mass spectrometry proteomics identification

The Tesorai team has updated the bioRxiv preprint describing the implementation of Tesorai Search, including detailed benchmarking of Tesorai against other leading software across multiple datasets.

Tesorai

April 25, 2025

Development of a large pretrained model for Tesorai Search

Peter's lecture at MaxQuant Summer School 2024 describing the principles underlying how Search was built.

Tesorai

October 12, 2024

Building Tesorai - an interview with Peter

Tanja Janko with the ASEF spoke with Peter about the creation of Tesorai and the future of molecular analysis.

Tesorai

July 11, 2024

Unlocking the power of proteomics in healthcare and drug discovery

Proteomics studies all proteins in the body, revealing how genes drive cellular functions. Unlike the stable genome, the dynamic proteome reflects real-time health and responses to diet, environment, and disease.

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Peter Cimermancic

July 2, 2024

Back to basics: Spectrum are all you need for better proteomics identifications

Tesorai Search re-centers proteomics on its foundation — the spectrum and the sequence — using a large pre-trained model that delivers both higher sensitivity and speed.

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Max Burq

May 28, 2024

Differential proteomics: Unpacking the protein table

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Max Burq

April 15, 2024

Dark matter matters: The untapped potential of data processing in life sciences

Biology now relies on big-data, high-throughput workflows to process and interpret signals from instruments like DNA sequencers and mass spectrometers. These workflows convert raw data into meaningful biological insights, helping identify disease drivers, drug targets, and biomarkers.

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Peter Cimermancic

March 19, 2024

Learning the grass, not the cow: How overfitting can mislead proteomics searches

Tools like Percolator can boost sensitivity, but overfitting can cause models to mistake artifacts for real signals, leading to more false positives.

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Max Burq

March 12, 2024

Demo video

See Tesorai Chat in action and watch examples of how it can make data visualization faster and easier.

Enhanced protein identification and quantification improve differential expression analysis

Accurate protein identification and quantification are central to extracting meaningful biological insights from mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics.

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