Sequest

Original author(s)	Jimmy Eng, Ashley McCormack and John Yates
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.^[1] Sequest identifies collections of tandem mass spectra to peptide sequences that have been generated from databases of protein sequences.

^ Jimmy K. Eng, Ashley L. McCormack, and John R. Yates, III (1994). "An Approach to Correlate Tandem Mass Spectral Data of Peptides with Amino Acid Sequences in a Protein Database". J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 5 (11): 976–989. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.377.3188. doi:10.1016/1044-0305(94)80016-2. PMID 24226387.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[1] Jimmy K. Eng, Ashley L. McCormack, and John R. Yates, III (1994). "An Approach to Correlate Tandem Mass Spectral Data of Peptides with Amino Acid Sequences in a Protein Database". J Am Soc Mass Spectrom. 5 (11): 976–989. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.377.3188. doi:10.1016/1044-0305(94)80016-2. PMID 24226387.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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