Peter Sneath

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According to Wikipedia, Peter Henry Andrews Sneath FRS, MD was a microbiologist who co-founded the field of numerical taxonomy, together with Robert R. Sokal. Sneath and Sokal wrote Principles of Numerical Taxonomy, revised in 1973 as Numerical Taxonomy. Sneath reviewed the state of numerical taxonomy in 1995 and wrote some autobiographical notes in 2010.

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Numerical Taxonomy: The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification (1973) (5261)
Principles of numerical taxonomy (1965) (2657)
Approved lists of bacterial names. (1980) (2512)
Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (1939) (1490)
Numerical Taxonomy: The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification. (1975) (1261)
Numerical classification of Streptomyces and related genera. (1983) (1240)
The application of computers to taxonomy. (1957) (979)
Sergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology — Volume 2 (1987) (519)
Some thoughts on bacterial classification. (1957) (320)
The influence on numerical taxonomic similarities of errors in microbiological tests. (1972) (317)
Relations between chemical structure and biological activity in peptides. (1966) (265)
A probability matrix for identification of some Streptomycetes. (1983) (204)
Cultural and biochemical characteristics of the genus Chromobacterium. (1956) (164)
Numerical Taxonomic Analysis of Agrobacterium (1973) (144)
Numerical taxonomy of Streptococcus. (1983) (140)
Thirty Years of Numerical Taxonomy (1995) (119)
Studies in congenital porphyria. 2. Incorporation of 15N in the stercobilin in the normal and in the porphyric. (1950) (117)
Fatal infection by Chromobacterium violaceum. (1953) (116)
Actinobacillus rossii sp. nov., Actinobacillus seminis sp. nov., nom. rev., Pasteurella bettii sp. nov., Pasteurella lymphangitidis sp. nov., Pasteurella mairi sp. nov., and Pasteurella trehalosi sp. nov. (1990) (109)
Genetic transfer and bacterial taxonomy. (1970) (108)
Evidence from Aeromonas for genetic crossing-over in ribosomal sequences. (1993) (90)
A method for testing the distinctness of clusters: A test of the disjunction of two clusters in Euclidean space as measured by their overlap (1977) (89)
An electro-taxonomic survey of bacteria. (1958) (89)
Analysis and Interpretation of Sequence Data for Bacterial Systematics: The View of a Numerical Taxonomist (1989) (88)
Streptococcus gallinarum sp. nov. and Streptococcus oralis sp. nov. (1982) (87)
DOTDND: a FORTRAN-77 program for showing graphically the confidence or uncertainty in phylogenetic trees (1991) (86)
Basic program for identification of an unknown with presence-absence data against an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1979) (86)
The First Decade of Numerical Taxonomy. (Book Reviews: Numerical Taxonomy. The Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification) (1975) (85)
Vigour and pattern in taxonomy. (1968) (78)
PHENETIC TAXONOMY AT THE SPECIES LEVEL AND ABOVE (1976) (78)
Detecting Evolutionary Incompatibilities From Protein Sequences (1975) (77)
A List of type and reference strains of bacteria1 (1966) (74)
A reappraisal of the terverticillate penicillia using biochemical, physiological and morphological features. I. Numerical taxonomy. (1989) (65)
Basic program for character separation indices from an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1979) (65)
Putrescine as an Essential Growth Factor for a Mutant of Aspergillus nidulans (1955) (64)
Numerical taxonomy and discriminant analysis applied to non-specific colitis. (1973) (63)
Brochothrix, a New Genus Tentatively Placed in the Family Lactobacillaceae (1976) (62)
Basic program for the most diagnostic properties of groups from an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1980) (61)
Mathematics in the Archaeological and Historical Sciences (1972) (61)
Some experiments in the numerical analysis of archaeological data (1966) (61)
Cladistic Representation of Reticulate Evolution (1975) (57)
Test Reproducibility in Relation to Identification (1974) (56)
Trend‐surface analysis of transformation grids (2009) (56)
A numerical phenotypic taxonomic study of the genus Neisseria. (1994) (56)
Reclassification of Chromobacterium iodinum (Davis) in a Redefined Genus Brevibacterium (Breed) as Brevibacterium iodinum nom.rev, ; comb.nov, (1980) (55)
Basic program for determining the best identification scores possible from the most typical examples when compared with an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1980) (53)
New probability matrices for identification of Streptomyces. (1989) (53)
NEW APPROACHES TO BACTERIAL TAXONOMY: USE OF COMPUTERS. (1964) (52)
Quantitative comparison of contour maps (1966) (52)
Taxonomy of Bordetella and Related Organisms of the Families Achromobacteraceae, Brucellaceae, and Neisseriaceae (1973) (51)
Numerical taxonomy of Pseudomonas based on published records of substrate utilization (1981) (50)
Draft BioCode (1997): The Prospective International Rules for the Scientific Names of Organisms (1996) (49)
Recent Developments in Theoretical and Quantitative Taxonomy (1961) (48)
Basic program for a significance test for two clusters in euclidean space as measured by their overlap (1979) (47)
The use of models in bacterial classification. (1959) (41)
A divided Petri dish for use with multipoint inoculators. (1967) (41)
Basic program for determining overlap between groups in an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1980) (40)
Quarrying in Antiquity: Technology, Tradition and Social Change (Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture, British Academy, 1971). By J. B. Wardperkins (1973) (37)
A taxonomic study of Pasteuralla septica, especially of strains isolated from human sources. (1960) (36)
TYPE CULTURES AND PROPOSED NEOTYPE CULTURES OF SOME SPECIES IN THE GENUS BACILLUS. (1964) (36)
Application of the Character Compatibility Approach to Generalized Molecular Sequence Data: Branching Order of the Proteobacterial Subdivisions (2006) (36)
The change from polar to peritrichous flagellation in Chromobacterium spp. (1956) (35)
A numerical taxonomic study of streptococci of serological group D. (1972) (34)
A numerical taxonomic study of Actinobacillus, Pasteurella and Yersinia. (1985) (34)
The maintenance of large numbers of strains of microorganisms, and the implications for culture collections (1977) (31)
Construction of matrices for computer-assisted identification of aerobic Gram-positive cocci. (1982) (30)
EFFICIENCY IN TAXONOMY (1966) (30)
Proof of the spontaneity of a mutation to penicillinase production in Bacillus cereus. (1955) (30)
Adsorption of blood-group substances from serum on to red cells. (1959) (29)
Numerical Taxonomy of Haemophilus and Related Bacteria (1973) (28)
A probability matrix for the identification of vibrios. (1985) (27)
A Reappraisal of the Terverticillate Penicillia using Biochemical, Physiological and Morphological Features (1990) (27)
Numerical Taxonomy: Some Points of View (1965) (27)
Draft Biocode: Prospective International Rules For The Scientific Names Of Organisms (1996) (26)
Numerical taxonomy of Haemophilus. (1981) (26)
Chapter II Computer Taxonomy (1972) (26)
Numerical Taxonomy@@@Principles of Numerical Taxonomy. (1964) (25)
Distortions of Taxonomic Structure from Incomplete Data on a Restricted Set of Reference Strains (1983) (25)
Bacteriology of Erysipeloid (1951) (24)
Numerical Classification of the Chemical Elements and Its Relation to the Periodic System (2000) (23)
Probabilistic Identification of Streptoverticillium Species (1985) (22)
A Method for Curve Seeking from Scattered Points (1966) (22)
Quantitative method for lateral tracing of sedimentary units (1976) (21)
Quantitative comparison of electrophoretic traces of bacterial proteins. (1979) (21)
Some Statistical Problems in Numerical Taxonomy (1967) (20)
16 – Future of Numerical Taxonomy (1985) (18)
Nocardia and Streptomyces: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nocardia and Streptomyes, Warsaw, October 4-8, 1976 Edited by M. Mordarski, W. Kurylowicz and J. Jeljasz (1978) (18)
Identification of Microorganisms (1978) (18)
The preparation of the approved lists of bacterial names. (2005) (17)
Towards A Harmonized Bionomenclature For Life On Earth: Report The Iubs/iums Exploratory Meeting On Harmonization Between Codes Of Nomenclature Held At The International Mycological Institute, Egham, Surrey, U.k. (March 16-18, 1994) (1994) (17)
A study in test reproducibility between laboratories: Report of a Pseudomonas Working Party (2004) (17)
Studies on staphylococcal penicillinase. (1962) (16)
BASIC program for a significance test for clusters in UPGMA dendrograms obtained from squared Euclidean distances (1979) (16)
Sex factors as episomes. (1962) (15)
Reticulate Evolution in Bacteria and Other Organisms: How Can We Study It? (2000) (15)
ESTIMATING UNCERTAINTY IN EVOLUTIONARY TREES FROM MANHATTAN-DISTANCE TRIADS (1986) (14)
ALGOL program for cross-association of nonnumeric sequences using a medium-size computer (1965) (14)
Distortion of Taxonomic Structure from DNA Relationships due to Different Choice of Reference Strains (1988) (13)
Philosophy and Method in Biological Classification (1983) (13)
Conifer Distributions and Continental Drift (1967) (13)
A method for the chromatographic detection of penicillins and related compounds and of penicillinase. (1961) (12)
Optical DNA-DNA homology in the genus Listeria. (1993) (12)
A vector model of disease for teaching and diagnosis. (1975) (12)
The effect of evenly spaced constant sites on the distribution of the random division of a molecular sequence (1998) (11)
The sampling distribution of theW statistic of disjunction for the arbitrary division of a random rectangular distribution (1979) (11)
Computers in bacteriology. (1969) (11)
Naturalness and predictivity of classifications (1985) (10)
Construction of a database to identify Staphylococcus species. (1989) (10)
A new species of Neisseria from iguanid lizards, Neisseria iguanae sp. nov. (1994) (10)
Basic program for nonparametric significance of overlap between a pair of clusters using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (1979) (8)
The estimation of differences in protein evolution rates (1980) (8)
Numerical taxonomy and automated identification: some implications for geology (1979) (8)
Constructing a database for low cost identification of gram negative rods in clinical laboratories. (1986) (8)
Estimation of the size of the vCJD epidemic (2004) (8)
Biochemistry of Human Genetics (1960) (8)
Standardization of antigens from Aspergillus fumigatus. (1983) (8)
Experimental error in DNA-DNA pairing: a survey of the literature. (1990) (7)
Correction of orthography of epithets in Pasteurella and some problems with recommendations on latinization. (1992) (7)
Status of Nomenclatural Types in the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Request for an Opinion (1982) (7)
Conservation of the generic name Chromobacterium and designation of type species and type strains: Request for an opinion (1956) (7)
RECENT TRENDS IN NUMERICAL TAXONOMY (1969) (7)
The USE OF MATHEMATICS (1962) (7)
The serology and pathogenicity of the genus Chromobacterium. (1959) (7)
Detecting aberrant strains in bacterial groups as an aid to constructing databases for computer identification. (1989) (7)
Basic program for printing a coding sheet for unknowns that are to be identified against an identification matrix of percent positive characters (1979) (7)
Numerical taxonomy: criticisms and critiques: Presidential address to the Systematics Association, November 1970 (1971) (6)
Some applications of numerical taxonomy to plant breeding [barley, wheat] (1976) (6)
The application of numerical taxonomy to the separation of cllonic inflammatory disease. (1970) (6)
Taxonomic note: the potential of dead bacterial specimens for systematic studies. (1995) (5)
DENBRAN: a BASIC program for a significance test for multivariate normality of clusters from branching patterms in dendrograms (1983) (5)
A general-purpose system for characterizing medically important bacteria to genus level. (1984) (5)
Numerical taxonomic study of the graft chimaera +Laburnocytisus adamii (Cytisus purpureus+Laburnum anagyroides) (1968) (5)
Algorithms Optimizing the Taxonomic Information of Classifications (1983) (5)
Predictivity in taxonomy and the probability of a tree (1989) (4)
OUTLIER: a BASIC program for detecting outlying members of multivariate clusters based on presence-absence data (1989) (4)
Significance tests for multivariate normality of clusters from branching patterns in dendrograms (1986) (4)
Goodness of Intuitive Arrangements into Time Trends Based on Complex Pattern (1968) (3)
Histochemical Demonstration of Lipase (1950) (3)
A Familiar Statistic in an Unfamiliar Guise ‐ a Problem in Clustering (1979) (3)
Estimating Concordance between Geographical Trends (1966) (3)
Principles of bacterial taxonomy. (1972) (3)
A note on the survival of bacteria in cryoprotectant medium at temperatures above 0°C (1984) (3)
Proceedings of the open meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the eighteenth Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Varna, Bulgaria, 29 May-7 June 1975 and Symposium on gravitation physiology, Varna, Bulgaria-30 and 31 May 1975 (1976) (2)
Segmentation of geological data using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (1981) (2)
Stercobilin formation in a case of congenital porphyria and in the normal. (1949) (2)
The Role of Culture Collections in the Era of Molecular Biology.: ATCC 50th Aniversary Symposium Held 23 September 1975 in Washington, D.C. Edited by Rita R. Colwell. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., 1976, 76 p., $12. (1976) (2)
International Conference on Numerical Taxonomy Lawrence, November 13th and 14th, 1967 (1968) (2)
Book reviewNocardia and Streptomyces : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nocardia and Streptomyes, Warsaw, October 4–8, 1976 Edited by M. Mordarski, W. Kurylowicz and J. Jeljaszewicz Gustav Fischer; Stuttgart, New York, 1978 ix + 440 pages. DM 160.00 (1978) (2)
Some considerations of the theoretical limits for living organisms. (1975) (2)
Symposium on Newer Trends in Taxonomy (1968) (1)
Microbial Classification. Twelfth Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology held at the Royal Institution, London, April, 1962. (1962) (1)
Handbook of new bacterial systematics (1994) (1)
Life sciences and space research XIII. Proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Seventeenth Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Sao Paulo, S.P., Brazil--June 1974. (1975) (1)
International Conference on Numerical Taxonomy: Tenth Annual Meeting (1977) (1)
Microbial classification : the twelfth symposium of the Society for General Microbiology, 1962 (1962) (1)
Samuel Tertius Cowan, 1905-1976. (1977) (1)
Numerical Taxonomy Revisited@@@Numerical Taxonomy, the Principles and Practice of Numerical Classification (1974) (1)
A proposal on metrics for identification using nucleic acid sequences (1993) (0)
An international symposium (1997) (0)
A note on the survival of bacteria in cryoprotectant medium at temperatures above 0 degrees C. (1984) (0)
The Bacteriology ot Erysipeloid. (1951) (0)
Some experiments in fitting pairs of diagrams that lack defined reference points (2010) (0)
25th Anniversary of the British Classification Society. Editorial. (1989) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1964) (0)
Abstracts of Papers read at the hundred and seventeenth meeting of the Society, held on Tuesday, 29th March 1955, at Wye College, Near Ashford, Kent (1955) (0)
Planets and Life (2019) (0)
Iron Gallein as a Substitute for Iron Hematoxylin in Parasitological Staining (1974) (0)
[Book Reviews] (1963) (0)
Life sciences and space research XII. Proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Sixteenth Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Constance, F.R.G., 23 May-5 June 1973. (1974) (0)
Mathematics and Computers in Archaeology. By J. E. Doran and F. R. Hodson (1975) (0)
Book Reviews (1930) (0)
Measurement of Taxonomic Criteria [Abridged] (1972) (0)
The Penguin Atlas of World History, Vol. 1: From the beginning to the eve of the French Revolution. By Hermann Kinder and Werner Hilgemann (1975) (0)
Life sciences and space research XI. Proceedings of the Open Meeting of the Working Group on Space Biology of the Fifteenth Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Madrid, Spain, 10-24 May 1972. (1973) (0)
25th Anniversary of the British Classification Society (1989) (0)
LANGUAGE AND CLASSIFICATION IN BIOLOGY, THEIR USE AND ABUSE: THE CLASSIFICATION OF BACTERIA (1963) (0)
The statistical reliability of synapomorphic analyses (1996) (0)
Reply [to “Comment ‘Quantitative comparison of contour maps’ by Daniel F. Merriam and Peter H. A. Sneath”] (1966) (0)
Book Review:Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference. Elliott Sober (1990) (0)
Report of the Subcommittee on Numerical Taxonomy (1962-1966) (1967) (0)

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