The theory and computation of evolutionary distances: Pattern recognition

The String-to-String Correction Problem

Robert A. Wagner, Michael J. Fischer · Journal of the ACM · 1974 · 3.1K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +9

On the Theory and Computation of Evolutionary Distances

Peter H. Sellers · SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics · 1974 · 487 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +6

Some biological sequence metrics

Michael S. Waterman, Temple F. Smith, W. A. Beyer · Advances in Mathematics · 1976 · 373 citations

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Biology +10

An algorithm for the distance between two finite sequences

Peter H. Sellers · Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A · 1974 · 131 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Mathematics +7