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 [[!meta title="The diagram, a method for comparing sequences. Its use with amino acid and nucleotide sequences."]]
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+[[!tag Oxford_plot]]
 
 Gibbs AJ, McIntyre GA.
 

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+## Why are the dot-plots of sequence comparisons also called “Oxford” plots?
+
+*work in progress*
+
+Wikipedia credits [[Gibbs and McIntyre (1970)|biblio/5456129]] for the
+invention of dot-plot graphs to compare two biological sequences.  Gibbs and
+McIntyre are from the University of Canberra, but the dot-plots are sometimes
+called “Oxford” plots or grids.  Is Wikipedia missing a reference?  I screened
+the papers citing Gibbs and McIntyre, and found that [[Maize and Lenk
+(1981)]|biblio/6801656]], from the NIH, also cite other papers: 1) [[Tinoco,
+Uhlenbeck and Levine (1971)|biblio/4927725]] from the University of Berkeley,
+that shows a base pairing matrix, 2) Fitch (1969) (PMID 5364927) from the
+University of Winsconsin, with no dot plot, and McLachlan (1970) (PMID 5167087)
+from the University of Cambridge, with a sequence comparison matrix for
+two proteins.
+
+[[!inline pages="tagged(Oxford_plot)" limit=0]]