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William R. Pearson

139

Works

28,993

Citations

53

h-index

91

i10-index

Research Topics

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Affiliations

California Institute of Technology1974–1981

European Bioinformatics Institute2012–2013

Hewlett-Packard (United States)1980–1980

Howard Hughes Medical Institute1983–1983

Johns Hopkins University1979–1983

Top Works

Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

William R. Pearson,David J. Lipman

198811,317 citations

Glutathione Transferases and Polymorphisms

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Rapid and Sensitive Protein Similarity Searches

David J. Lipman,William R. Pearson

19854,081 citations

[5] Rapid and sensitive sequence comparison with FASTP and FASTA

William R. Pearson

19901,963 citations

An Introduction to Sequence Similarity (“Homology”) Searching

William R. Pearson

2013936 citations

Hereditary differences in the expression of the human glutathione transferase active on trans-stilbene oxide are due to a gene deletion.

Janeric Seidegård,William R. Vorachek,et al.

1988732 citations

Nomenclature for human glutathione transferases

Bengt Mannervik,Sanjay Awasthi,et al.

1992676 citations

Comparison of DNA Sequences with Protein Sequences

William R. Pearson,Todd Wood,et al.

1997616 citations

Flexible Sequence Similarity Searching with the FASTA3 Program Package

William R. Pearson

2003602 citations

Searching protein sequence libraries: Comparison of the sensitivity and selectivity of the Smith-Waterman and FASTA algorithms

William R. Pearson

1991585 citations