[Biopython-dev] add dynamic programming alignment modules
Jeffrey Chang
jchang at SMI.Stanford.EDU
Wed Aug 1 19:57:22 EDT 2001
On the flight home from ISMB, I coded up some modules to do pairwise
alignments. I went ahead and put them into the Bio.Align package
because they seem most appropriate there -- I hope nobody objects!
There are two main modules: pairwise.py and fastpairwise.py. The
first one implements a slower, more general alignment algorithm. The
second is faster, but requires an affine gap penalty. Right now,
they're both implemented in python. However, I broke the code up in
such a way so that it won't be hard to swap out a piece of it with
fast C code. I didn't have time to do this on the flight, but might
get to it at a later date.
Enjoy!
Jeff
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