SmithWaterman

MOVED TO GITHUB: https://github.com/noporpoise/seq-align

An implementation of the Smith-Waterman local sequence alignment algorithm.

See our sister project global alignment using Needleman-Wunsch:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/needlemanwunsch/

Features

Affine gap penalties
Coloured ouput
Reads FASTA, FASTQ and plain sequence files (inc. gzip'ed files)
Preset DNA/Protein substitution matrices (PAM/BLOSUM etc)
Can load penalty substitution matrices
Portable C code that can be used in other bioinformatics projects

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Mac

Intended Audience

Education, Science/Research

User Interface

Command-line, Console/Terminal

Programming Language

C, C++

Related Categories

C++ Bio-Informatics Software, C Bio-Informatics Software

Registered

2011-12-14

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