Sequest
| Original author(s) | Jimmy Eng, Ashley McCormack and John Yates |
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| Operating system | Windows, Linux |
| Type | Protein identification |
| License | proprietary (algorithm subject to U.S. patents 6,017,693 and 5,538,897, and a European patent) |
| Website | Thermo, Yates' Lab, UWPR |
Sequest (often stylized as SEQUEST) is a tandem mass spectrometry data analysis program used for protein identification. Sequest identifies collections of tandem mass spectra to peptide sequences that have been generated from databases of protein sequences.