A new method that simultaneously aligns and reconstructs ancestral sequences for any number of homologous sequences, when the phylogeny is given.

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

1970 • 11,049 citations

Toward Defining the Course of Evolution: Minimum Change for a Specific Tree Topology

1971 • 6,301 citations

Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison

1983 • 1,947 citations

Progressive sequence alignment as a prerequisitetto correct phylogenetic trees

1987 • 1,899 citations

A Successive Approximations Approach to Character Weighting

1969 • 1,292 citations

Algorithms for approximate string matching

1985 • 618 citations

Minimal Mutation Trees of Sequences

1975 • 580 citations

The steiner problem in phylogeny is NP-complete

1982 • 446 citations

Some biological sequence metrics

1976 • 374 citations

Matching Sequences under Deletion/Insertion Constraints

1972 • 301 citations

Minimum Mutation Fits to a Given Tree

1973 • 273 citations

Origin and evolution of organisms as deduced from 5S ribosomal RNA sequences.

1987 • 266 citations

A multiple sequence alignment program

1986 • 158 citations

An algorithm for the distance between two finite sequences

1974 • 131 citations

Multiple sequence alignment

1986 • 128 citations

Multiple sequence alignment by consensus

1986 • 117 citations

Fast optimal alignment

1984 • 102 citations

Evolution of 5S RNA and the Non-randomness of Base Replacement

1973 • 94 citations

A dynamic programming algorithm to find all solutions in a neighborhood of the optimum

1985 • 74 citations

A method for the simultaneous alignment of three or more amino acid sequences

1986 • 64 citations

A tree reconstruction method that is economical in the number of pairwise comparisons used.

1989 • 60 citations

MULTAN: a program to align multiple DNA sequences

1986 • 51 citations

Finding the Minimal Change in a Given Tree

1990 • 42 citations

Algorithms for computing evolutionary similarity measures with length independent gap penalties

1984 • 41 citations

Evolution of the primary and secondary structures of the E1a mRNAs of the adenovirus.

1987 • 22 citations