Everything about OR-Tools

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: OR-ToolsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: UCSF ChimeraX : Tools for structure building and analysisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Contemporary MusiciansThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis toolsCited 31,926 times
5. Go sideways: List of optimization softwareA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: COIN-ORA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools

  J. Thompson · 1997 · Nucleic Acids Research · 31,926 citations

• The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

  Christian Quast, Elmar Pruesse, Pelin Yilmaz · 2012 · Nucleic Acids Research · 30,889 citations

• Coot : model-building tools for molecular graphics

  Paul Emsley, Kevin Cowtan · 2004 · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography · 30,014 citations

• Bioinformatics enrichment tools: paths toward the comprehensive functional analysis of large gene lists

  Da Wei Huang, Brad T. Sherman, Richard A. Lempicki · 2008 · Nucleic Acids Research · 12,674 citations

• MultiQC: summarize analysis results for multiple tools and samples in a single report

  Philip Ewels, Måns Magnusson, Sverker Lundin · 2016 · Bioinformatics · 10,826 citations

• MEME SUITE: tools for motif discovery and searching

  T. L. Bailey, M. Boden, F. A. Buske · 2009 · Nucleic Acids Research · 9,811 citations

• Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

  W R Pearson, D J Lipman · 1988 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 7,771 citations

• PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences

  M. Lescot · 2002 · Nucleic Acids Research · 7,437 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• UCSF ChimeraX : Tools for structure building and analysis

  Elaine C. Meng, Thomas D. Goddard, Eric F. Pettersen · 2023 · Protein Science · 5,556 citations

• Search and sequence analysis tools services from EMBL-EBI in 2022

  Fábio Madeira, Matt Pearce, Adrian R N Tivey · 2022 · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,312 citations

• The EMBL-EBI Job Dispatcher sequence analysis tools framework in 2024

  Fábio Madeira, Nandana Madhusoodanan, Joonheung Lee · 2024 · Nucleic Acids Research · 2,095 citations

• Macrophages as tools and targets in cancer therapy

  Alberto Mantovani, Paola Allavena, Federica Marchesi · 2022 · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery · 1,812 citations

• Extracellular vesicles as tools and targets in therapy for diseases

  Mudasir A. Kumar, Sadaf K. Baba, Hana Q. Sadida · 2024 · Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy · 1,432 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Contemporary MusiciansAngela M. Pilchak · 2004
• Advances in Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots IJian S. Dai · 2012
• 📕Vozmozhnosti rat͡s︡ionalʹnoĭ pererabotki volʹframovogo mineralʹnogo syrʹi͡a︡ Dalʹnevostochnogo regiona dli͡a︡ poluchenii͡a︡ instrumentalʹnykh i naplavochnykh materialovV. L. Butukhanov · 1992
• Superstats - StructuresMoira Butterfield, Helen Greathead · 2016
• 📕Get Started with Microsoft PowerPoint 97! - Illustrated InteractiveMac Mendelsohn · 1997

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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