# Smith 1981: Identification of common molecular subsequences

> T.F. Smith, M.S. Waterman, 1981. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Listed among the sources of the methods survey on bioinformatics and signal…

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# Identification of common molecular subsequences

T.F. Smith, M.S. Waterman, 1981. _Journal of Molecular Biology_.

The paper that introduced the Smith-Waterman algorithm for finding the best-matching local regions between two sequences.

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Smith, T., & Waterman, M. (1981). Identification of common molecular subsequences. Journal of Molecular Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5
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