Sequence alignment algorithms form the foundation of comparative genomics, structural biology and evolutionary studies by identifying regions of similarity among nucleotide or protein sequences.

Open-access databases such as the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) contain more than 2.4 million bacterial genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. Until now, searching these vast ...

Overview: An algorithm is a step-by-step set of instructions that takes an input and produces a clear output, just like a ...