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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.


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Guides, Tutorials and Other Bioinformatic How-To's
Baxevanis, A.D. and Ouellette, B.F.F., eds. 2001 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
Aravind, 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. 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
Altschul, S. 1991 Amino Acid Substitution Matrices from an Information Theoretic Perspective J. Mol. Biol. 219: 555-565
Altschul, S., Boguski, M.S., Gish, W. and Wootton, J.C. 1994 Issues in searching molecular sequence database Nature Genetics 6: 119-129
Altschul, S.F. and Gish, W. 1996 Local Alignment Statistics. 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. Nucl. Acids Res. 25:3389-3402
Henikoff, S. 1996 Scores for sequence searches and alignments Curr. Op. in Structural Biol. 6:353-360


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