A significant quantity of such sequences were only just beginning to become available at this time. Goad assembled a group of young physicists - including Temple Smith, Myron Stein, Mike Waterman, William Beyer, and Minoru Kanehisa - to work on mathematical problems involved with sequence comparison and analysis. As part of this effort, in 1979 Goad established the Los Alamos Sequence Database to collect nucleotide sequences that could be used for analysis.[1]