From 8aa31a13845354c83358de2682aadf336ee9e9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Charles Plessy Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:45:38 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?Caf=C3=A9?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- biblio/5456129.mdwn | 2 +- tags/Oxford_plot.mdwn | 19 +++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/biblio/5456129.mdwn b/biblio/5456129.mdwn index 104086ee..f5899b0a 100644 --- a/biblio/5456129.mdwn +++ b/biblio/5456129.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [[!meta title="The diagram, a method for comparing sequences. Its use with amino acid and nucleotide sequences."]] -[[!tag software method alignment]] +[[!tag Oxford_plot]] Gibbs AJ, McIntyre GA. diff --git a/tags/Oxford_plot.mdwn b/tags/Oxford_plot.mdwn index 39072e90..10e755e8 100644 --- a/tags/Oxford_plot.mdwn +++ b/tags/Oxford_plot.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,19 @@ [[!meta title="pages tagged Oxford plot"]] -[[!inline pages="tagged(Oxford_plot)" actions="no" archive="yes" -feedshow=10]] +## 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]] -- 2.47.3