William R. Pearson
University of Virginia
1 paper in the Anchorcite directory, published in 1988, cited 11,371 times in total.
ORCID profileResearch topics
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · 1 paper
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms · 1 paper
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics · 1 paper
Frequent co-authors
- David J. Lipman · 1 paper
Papers
- Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1988 · 11,371 citations
We have developed three computer programs for comparisons of protein and DNA sequences. They can be used to search sequence data bases, evaluate similarity scores, and identify periodic structures based on local sequence similarity. The FASTA program is a more…
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