Sequence Analysis and Comparison: A Bibliography

Version 5.0 - 1,511 Entries
31 December 1994

William H. E. Day (whday@ac.dal.ca)
Box 17 (Shore Road)
Port Maitland
NS BOW 2V0
Canada

DISCLAIMER. The accompanying bibliography was generated from a data base maintained with the Reference Manager (Research Information Systems, Inc.) program for the Macintosh computer. While the author believes the information in the bibliography to be true and accurate, he cannot accept legal responsibility for any errors or omissions which may have been made.

INTRODUCTION. The bibliography describes papers on the theory or methodology of sequence analysis, alignment, consensus or comparison. It has many papers on the estimation of phylogenies from sequence data. It has just a few papers on the alignment, comparison or prediction of sequence structures.

SEARCH. Carry out a free-text search by typing search terms into search window. Relevant entries in the bibliographic database are scored (maximum 1000) in terms of their relevance. Clicking on the entry number will yield the text of the entry.

CONTENTS. The bibliography's content may be summarized in the following ways.

STATISTICS.            Total # entries:           1,511
                       Total # authors:           1,402
                       Total # editors:              69
                       Total # keywords:            262
                       Total # journals:            180
                       Total # publication years:    31 
JOURNALS. 1,386 of the papers appear in 180 journals or serial publications. These journals or serial publications were the most frequently used.

# papers  Journal or Serial Publication                                 Area
--------  -----------------------------------------------------------  -------
   24     ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing                         compsci
   28     SIAM Journal on Computing                                    compsci
   31     Theoretical Computer Science                                 compsci
   32     Systematic Biology (Systematic Zoology)                      biology 
   35     Journal of Theoretical Biology                               biology
   38     Journal of Molecular Evolution                               biology
   41     Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA   biology
   43     Bulletin of Mathematical Biology                             biology
   43     Methods in Enzymology                                        biology
   44     Information Processing Letters                               compsci
   52     Molecular Biology and Evolution                              biology
   57     Journal of Molecular Biology                                 biology
   64     Lecture Notes in Computer Science                            compsci
  123     Nucleic Acids Research                                       biology
  166     Computer Applications in the Biosciences                     biology

DATES OF PUBLICATION.

Year # papers ---- -------- 1965 3 1966 4 1967 4 1968 6 1969 4 1970 7 1971 5 1972 10 1973 14 1974 12 1975 12 1976 10 1977 20 1978 20 1979 18 1980 22 1981 32 1982 34 1983 49 1984 58 1985 65 1986 78 1987 65 1988 84 1989 107 1990 139 1991 122 1992 172 1993 171 1994 162

CORRECTIONS and SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW ENTRIES. I welcome them!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I thank F. R. McMorris (Univ. Louisville) and H. T. Wareham (Univ. Victoria) for collaboration on, and valuable assistance with, previous versions of the bibliography.

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    : Port Maitland                                Fax:  (902)742-1295 :
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