The purpose of this article is to review usage of exact sequence matches in different field of genomic studies. Methods. The presentation is built in the form of a brief review of clearly non-exhaustive list of works in which the authors inferred biological knowledge using statistical properties of exact matches between different genomic texts or self-matches along the same genomic se... https://www.roneverhart.com/Corvette-Taillight-Assembly-Inner-W-Backup-1980-1982/