Sequence alignment and penalty choice

Basic local alignment search tool

1990 • 87,358 citations

A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins

1970 • 11,049 citations

Identification of common molecular subsequences

1981 • 9,753 citations

Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes.

1990 • 1,542 citations

[47] Establishing homologies in protein sequences

1983 • 1,187 citations

Three-Dimensional Structure of Immunoglobulins

1979 • 692 citations

Sigma factors fromE. coli, B. subtilis, phage SP01, and phage T4 are homologous proteins

1986 • 460 citations

Homology among DNA-binding proteins suggests use of a conserved super-secondary structure

1982 • 432 citations

A new algorithm for best subsequence alignments with application to tRNA-rRNA comparisons

1987 • 293 citations

Oligopeptide biases in protein sequences and their use in predicting protein coding regions in nucleotide sequences

1988 • 262 citations

Comparative biosequence metrics

1981 • 259 citations

Longest common subsequences of two random sequences

1975 • 239 citations

Optimal sequence alignments

1983 • 226 citations

The longest common subsequence problem revisited

1987 • 217 citations

General methods of sequence comparison

1984 • 196 citations

General methods of sequence comparison

1984 • 159 citations

The Erdos-Renyi Law in Distribution, for Coin Tossing and Sequence Matching

1990 • 146 citations

Evaluation and improvements in the automatic alignment of protein sequences

1987 • 114 citations

Parametric optimization of sequence alignment

1994 • 112 citations

Parametric sequence comparisons.

1992 • 102 citations

Phase transitions in sequence matches and nucleic acid structure.

1987 • 86 citations

Optimal sequence alignment allowing for long gaps

1990 • 81 citations

Optimal sequence alignment allowing for long gaps

1990 • 52 citations

Proceedings of the third annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms

1992 • 24 citations

A new interactive protein sequence alignment program and comparison of its results with widely used algorithms

1989 • 21 citations

Constructing the minimization diagram of a two-parameter problem

1991 • 19 citations

Cyclic Nucleotide-gated Channels — A Family of Proteins Involved in Vertebrate Photoreception and Olfaction

1992 • 2 citations