Mascot (software)

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Mascot
Genre Protein identification
License Cancer Research Technology
Website http://www.matrixscience.com/

Mascot is a software search engine that uses mass spectrometry data to identify proteins from primary sequence databases.

Mascot incorporates code from Mowse, developed by Darryl Pappin and David Perkins at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and licensed from Cancer Research Technology.