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On this page, a short list of useful print resources on bioinformatics and sequence similarity searching have been compiled. The list of guides, and how-to articles are those available at the time this site was being prepared. Click on the "Guides, Tutorials..." heading to retrieve a more up to date listing. The list of primary literature (below) is valuable reading for those who want to deepen their understanding of sequence similarity search algorithms. |
Authors or Editors |
Date |
Title |
Publisher or Citation |
Guides, Tutorials and Other Bioinformatic How-To's |
Baxevanis, A.D. and Oullette, B.F.F., eds. |
1998 |
Bioinformatics, A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins |
A. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., NY |
Brenner, S., Lewitter, F., Patterson, M., and Handel, M., eds. |
1998 |
Trends Guide to Bioinformatics |
Elsevier Science |
Avarind, L. and Koonin, E.V. |
1999 |
Gleaning non-trivial structural, functional and evolutionary information about proteins by iterative database searches. |
J. Mol. Biol., 287:1023-1040. |
Altschul S.F., and Koonin, E.V. |
1998. |
Iterated profile searches
with PSI-BLAST - a tool for discovery in protein databases.
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TIBS 23(11):444-7. |
Pickeral, O.K. and Boguski, M.S. |
1999 |
Book Review:
The Bioinformatics bookshelf: teach yourself computational biology? |
Cell 96:451-455 |
Primary Literature and Reviews |
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Altschul, S. |
1991 |
Amino Acid Substitution Matrices from an Information Theoretic Perspective
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J. Mol. Biol. 219: 555-565 |
Altschul, S., Boguski, M.S., Gish, W. and Wootton, J.C. |
1994 |
Issues in searching molecular sequence database
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Nature Genetics 6: 119-129 |
Altschul, S.F. and Gish, W. |
1996 |
Local Alignment Statistics.
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Methods in Enzymology 266:460-480 |
Altschul, S.F., Madden, T.L., Schaffer, A.A., Zhang, J., Anang, Z., Miller, W., Lipman, D.J. |
1997 |
Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLST: a new generation of protein database search programs.
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Nucl. Acids Res. 25:3389-3402 |
Henikoff, S. |
1996 |
Scores for sequence searches and alignments
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Curr. Op. in Structural Biol. 6:353-360 |
Revised June 9, 2000
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