General methods of sequence comparison

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

The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms

1974 • 9,688 citations

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

1971 • 5,502 citations

Construction of Phylogenetic Trees

1967 • 3,637 citations

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

1983 • 1,947 citations

An improved algorithm for matching biological sequences

1982 • 1,728 citations

Rapid similarity searches of nucleic acid and protein data banks.

1983 • 1,577 citations

Simian Sarcoma Virus onc Gene, v- sis , Is Derived from the Gene (or Genes) Encoding a Platelet-Derived Growth Factor

1983 • 1,550 citations

Multidimensional Scaling, Tree-Fitting, and Clustering

1980 • 718 citations

Comparison of biosequences

1981 • 690 citations

Minimal Mutation Trees of Sequences

1975 • 580 citations

On the Theory and Computation of Evolutionary Distances

1974 • 490 citations

Enhanced graphic matrix analysis of nucleic acid and protein sequences.

1981 • 476 citations

The theory and computation of evolutionary distances: Pattern recognition

1980 • 375 citations

Some biological sequence metrics

1976 • 374 citations

Pattern recognition in nucleic acid sequences. I. A general method for finding local homologies and symmetries

1982 • 331 citations

The Diagram, a Method for Comparing Sequences

1970 • 322 citations

Matching Sequences under Deletion/Insertion Constraints

1972 • 301 citations

Comparative biosequence metrics

1981 • 259 citations

Gene Product of v- fgr onc : Hybrid Protein Containing a Portion of Actin and a Tyrosine-Specific Protein Kinase

1984 • 240 citations

Optimal sequence alignments

1983 • 226 citations

Computer analysis of nucleic acid regulatory sequences.

1977 • 181 citations

Efficient algorithms for folding and comparing nucleic acid sequences

1982 • 139 citations

On approximate string matching

1983 • 139 citations

Computer method for predicting the secondary structure of single-stranded RNA

1978 • 137 citations

An algorithm for the distance between two finite sequences

1974 • 131 citations

An efficient method for finding repeats in molecular sequences

1983 • 116 citations

Efficient sequence alignment algorithms

1984 • 112 citations

New approaches for computer analysis of nucleic acid sequences.

1983 • 102 citations

Fast optimal alignment

1984 • 102 citations

The Context Dependent Comparison of Biological Sequences

1984 • 92 citations

A molecular sequence metric and evolutionary trees

1974 • 85 citations

Technical Note—Determining All Optimal and Near-Optimal Solutions when Solving Shortest Path Problems by Dynamic Programming

1984 • 70 citations

Sequence alignments in the neighborhood of the optimum with general application to dynamic programming

1983 • 67 citations

Matrix program to analyze primary structure homology

1982 • 61 citations

A fast homology program for aligning biological sequences

1984 • 60 citations

Pattern recognition in nucleic acid sequences. II. An efficient method for finding locally stable secondary structures

1982 • 58 citations

Note on a “Square” Functional Equation

1970 • 55 citations

Locating gaps in amino acid sequences to optimize the homology between two proteins

1969 • 51 citations

An application of information theory to genetic mutations and the matching of polypeptide sequences

1973 • 50 citations

A sequence-comparison statistic and algorithm

1973 • 48 citations

Improvements to a program for DNA analysin: a procedure to find homologies among many sequences

1982 • 45 citations

Sequence comparison by dynamic programming

1975 • 44 citations

Two-dimensional graphic analysis of DNA sequence homologies

1982 • 43 citations

Pattern recognition in genetic sequences

1979 • 40 citations

Sequence comparison by exponentially-damped alignment

1984 • 31 citations

Applications of parallel processing algorithms for DNA sequence analysis

1984 • 27 citations

Shortcuts, diversions, and maximal chainsin partially ordered sets

1973 • 24 citations

Cancer: Oncogenes and growth factors

1983 • 21 citations

A generalized method for matching informational macromolecular code sequences

1974 • 19 citations

Some Combinatorial Problems Studied Experimentally on Computing Machines

1972 • 17 citations

Asymptotic Limits for a Two‐Dimensional Recursion

1981 • 14 citations

Interactive computer programs in sequence data analysis

1982 • 13 citations

Matching code sequences utilizing context free quality measures

1975 • 11 citations