Standout Papers

Improved tools for biological sequence comparison. 1985 2026 1998 2012 9.5k
  1. Improved tools for biological sequence comparison. (1988)
    William R. Pearson, David J. Lipman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  2. Rapid and Sensitive Protein Similarity Searches (1985)
    David J. Lipman, William R. Pearson Science
  3. [5] Rapid and sensitive sequence comparison with FASTP and FASTA (1990)
    William R. Pearson Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology
  4. Hereditary differences in the expression of the human glutathione transferase active on trans-stilbene oxide are due to a gene deletion. (1988)
    Janeric Seidegård, William R. Vorachek et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. An Introduction to Sequence Similarity (“Homology”) Searching (2013)
    William R. Pearson Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

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14 by Nobel laureates 38 from Science/Nature 82 standout
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Works of William R. Pearson being referenced

Comparison of DNA Sequences with Protein Sequences
1997
Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.
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William R. Pearson 15813 872 3002 3161 94 21.8k
Rolf Apweiler 18475 666 2774 3693 159 24.9k
Kevin Karplus 12040 362 1877 2267 60 17.7k
Steven E. Brenner 18719 351 2631 2571 132 23.0k
Weizhong Li 12581 263 2736 4404 60 21.4k
Walter M. Fitch 13021 441 4434 3195 110 20.2k
Geoffrey J. Barton 18806 248 2641 3194 151 25.4k
Michael Y. Galperin 12079 439 3461 2082 199 17.0k
Amos Bairoch 27076 722 4019 5310 153 37.5k
Weizhong Li 16181 233 2235 3455 113 24.5k
Stephen H. Bryant 13701 361 1541 2381 152 20.7k

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