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Sequence Alignment

Sequence Alignment is a computational method in bioinformatics that belongs to the category of sequence analysis techniques, specifically defined by the process of arranging nucleotide or amino acid sequences to identify regions of similarity that may indicate functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between biological sequences.

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Basic local alignment search tool

Stephen F. Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1990 · 94.5K citations

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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

Heng Li, Alec Wysoker, Tim Fennell et al. · Bioinformatics · 2009 · 67.5K citations · Full text

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CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1994 · 64.9K citations · Full text

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Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

Heng Li, Richard Durbin · Bioinformatics · 2009 · 62.8K citations · Full text

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Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

Ben Langmead, Steven L. Salzberg · Nature Methods · 2012 · 61.1K citations

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    Michael S. Waterman

    University of Southern California, United States

    42 publications · 14.4K citations

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    Desmond G. Higgins

    University College Dublin, Ireland

    38 publications · 138.7K citations

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    Webb Miller

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    46 publications · 14.4K citations

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    Burkhard Morgenstern

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    44 publications · 6K citations

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    Cédric Notredame

    Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain

    36 publications · 12K citations

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  1. National Institutes of Health

    Bethesda, United States

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    501 publications

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  2. National Center for Biotechnology Information

    Bethesda, United States

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    367 publications

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  3. European Bioinformatics Institute

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    67 h-index

    439 publications

    584.3K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    67 h-index

    648 publications

    82.5K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    62 h-index

    293 publications

    77K citations

  6. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    62 h-index

    259 publications

    138.1K citations

  7. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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    237 publications

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    Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  1. Nucleic Acids Research

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  2. Bioinformatics

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  3. BMC Bioinformatics

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  4. Genome Research

    GR · 108 publications · 58.5K citations

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  5. Computer applications in the biosciences

    CABIOS · 182 publications · 34.5K citations

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