A platform for biological sequence comparison on parallel computers. - A. S. Deshpande; Dana S. Richards; William R. Pearson (Comput. Appl. Biosci., 1991)

Aligning two sequences within a specified diagonal band. - Kun-Mao Chao; William R. Pearson; Webb Miller (Comput. Appl. Biosci., 1992)

Comparing machine-independent versus machine-specific parallelization of a software platform for biological sequence comparison. - Perry L. Miller; Prakash M. Nadkarni; William R. Pearson (Comput. Appl. Biosci., 1992)

No pain and gain! - experiences with Mentat on a biological application. - Andrew S. Grimshaw; Emily A. West; William R. Pearson (Concurr. Pract. Exp., 1993)

White Paper: Designing Medical Informatics Research and Library-Resource Projects to Increase What Is Learned. - William W. Stead; R. Brian Haynes; Sherrilynne S. Fuller; Charles P. Friedman; Larry E. Travis; J. Robert Beck; Carol H. Fenichel; B. Chandrasekaran 001; Bruce G. Buchanan; Enrique E. Abola; MaryEllen C. Sievert; Reed M. Gardner; et al. (J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 1994)

A New Approach to Primer Selection in Polymerase Chain Reaction Experiments. - William R. Pearson; Gabriel Robins; Dallas E. Wrege; Tongtong Zhang (ISMB, 1995)

On the Primer Selection Problem in Polymerase Chain Reaction Experiments. - William R. Pearson; Gabriel Robins; Dallas E. Wrege; Tongtong Zhang (Discret. Appl. Math., 1996)

Identifying distantly related protein sequences. - William R. Pearson (Comput. Appl. Biosci., 1997)

Aligning a DNA Sequence with a Protein Sequence. - Zheng Zhang 004; William R. Pearson; Webb Miller (J. Comput. Biol., 1997)

Training for bioinformatics and computational biology. - William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2001)

Empirical determination of effective gap penalties for sequence comparison. - J. T. Reese; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2002)

CRP: Cleavage of Radiolabeled Phosphoproteins. - Aaron J. Mackey; Timothy A. J. Haystead; William R. Pearson (Nucleic Acids Res., 2003)

Visualization of near-optimal sequence alignments. - Michael E. Smoot; Stephanie A. Guerlain; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2004)

A system for visualizing and analyzing near-optimal protein sequence alignments. - Michael E. Smoot; Ellen J. Bass; Stephanie A. Guerlain; William R. Pearson (Inf. Vis., 2005)

RefProtDom: a protein database with improved domain boundaries and homology relationships. - Mileidy W. Gonzalez; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2010)

Globally, unrelated protein sequences appear random. - Daniel T. Lavelle; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2010)

Improving pairwise sequence alignment accuracy using near-optimal protein sequence alignments. - Michael L. Sierk; Michael E. Smoot; Ellen J. Bass; William R. Pearson (BMC Bioinform., 2010)

PSI-Search: iterative HOE-reduced profile SSEARCH searching. - Weizhong Li 001; Hamish McWilliam; Mickael Goujon; Andrew Peter Cowley; Rodrigo Lopez; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2012)

MACiE: exploring the diversity of biochemical reactions. - Gemma L. Holliday; Claudia Andreini; Julia D. Fischer; Syed Asad Rahman; Daniel E. Almonacid; Sophie T. Williams; William R. Pearson (Nucleic Acids Res., 2012)

Adjusting scoring matrices to correct overextended alignments. - Lauren J. Mills; William R. Pearson (Bioinform., 2013)

The Catalytic Site Atlas 2.0: cataloging catalytic sites and residues identified in enzymes. - Nicholas Furnham; Gemma L. Holliday; Tjaart A. P. de Beer; Julius O. B. Jacobsen; William R. Pearson; Janet M. Thornton (Nucleic Acids Res., 2014)

Applying, Evaluating and Refining Bioinformatics Core Competencies (An Update from the Curriculum Task Force of ISCB's Education Committee). - Lonnie R. Welch; Cath Brooksbank; Russell Schwartz; Sarah L. Morgan; Bruno A. Gaëta; Alastair M. Kilpatrick; Daniel Mietchen; Benjamin L. Moore; Nicola J. Mulder; Mark A. Pauley; William R. Pearson; Predrag Radivojac; et al. (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2016)

Identification of Homologs. - William R. Pearson (Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (3), 2019)