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Differential evolution (DE) offers a flexible alternative to grid search for optimizing gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) parameters, achieving comparable compound identification performance with potential improvements in complex scenarios.

Area of Science:

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Computational Chemistry

Background:

  • Spectrum preprocessing parameters critically impact GC-MS library-based compound identification.
  • Conventional grid search optimization is computationally inefficient and limited by discretization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Compare the performance of differential evolution (DE) and grid search for optimizing GC-MS compound identification parameters.
  • Evaluate DE's flexibility and efficiency in exploring parameter spaces.

Main Methods:

  • Applied cosine similarity to the NIST GC-MS library.
  • Utilized DE to maximize cross-validated accuracy or mean reciprocal rank (MRR).
  • Compared DE results with grid search over five parameter values, evaluating performance using accuracy, MRR, and AUC.

Main Results:

  • DE achieved slightly higher accuracy and MRR than grid search when optimizing four parameters simultaneously.
  • More significant differences were noted in unidimensional tuning, especially for the intensity weight factor.
  • Simultaneous multidimensional parameter optimization outperformed isolated tuning.

Conclusions:

  • DE offers a flexible approach for high-dimensional or unknown parameter spaces, while grid search is suitable for limited, known spaces.
  • DE demonstrated comparable identification performance to grid search with modest improvements in certain settings.
  • A publicly available tool, MSTune, was developed for spectrum preprocessing parameter optimization.