Prof. John Yates The Scripps Research Institute, USA

John R. Yates is the John Lytton Young Professor at Scripps Research. His research includes the development of integrated methods for tandem mass spectrometry analysis of protein mixtures, bioinformatics using mass spectrometry data, and biological studies involving proteomics. He is the lead inventor of the SEQUEST software for correlating tandem... read moremass spectrometry data to sequences in the database and developer of the shotgun proteomics technique for the analysis of protein mixtures. His laboratory has developed proteomic techniques to analyze protein complexes, posttranslational modifications, organelles, and quantitative analysis of protein expression for the study of biology.