Improved hit criteria for DNA local alignment

Basic local alignment search tool

Stephen F. Altschul, Warren Gish, Webb Miller et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1990 · 92.8K citations

Bioinformatics, Engineering, Information Retrieval +10

Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

William R. Pearson, David J. Lipman · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 11.3K citations · Full text

Genetics, Molecular Biology, Dna Sequences +18

Identification of common molecular subsequences

Temple F. Smith, Michael S. Waterman · Journal of Molecular Biology · 1981 · 10K citations

Sequence Motif, Functional Genomics, Natural Sciences +8

Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences

Gary Benson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1999 · 9.4K citations

<tt>BLAT</tt>—The <tt>BLAST</tt>-Like Alignment Tool

W. James Kent · Genome Research · 2002 · 8.3K citations · Full text

Biology, Long-read Sequencing, Phylogenetics +14