Text books

1. T K Attwood & D J Parry-Smith “Introduction to bioinformatics”. Sixth edition , 2003, ISBN 81-7808-507-0, published by Pearson education(Singapore) Pte.Ltd., Indian branch, Delhi.
2. Paul G. Higgs and Teresa K. Attwood, “Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution” , First indian Reprint , 2005, ISBN 1-4051-3802-5, published by BLACK WELL PUBLISHING, Australia.

Journals

Smith, Temple F and Waterman, Michael S. (1981) “Identification of Common Molecular Sub sequences”. Journal of Molecular Biology 147: 195–197. 

Webliography 

www.ucpress.edu/content/chapters/10874.ch01.pdf

lectures.molgen.mpg.de/Pairwise/SeqAli/

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~eroberts/courses/soco/projects/computers-and-the-hgp/smith_waterman.html