In article <1eb3f133.0309100735.2932c73b at posting.google.com>,
Andrea <webmaster at bioinformatik.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>I am looking for a fast global alignment tool.
>I want to find the most identical sequences by comparing a query
>sequence with a sequence database.
>If I do this with blast or fasta I will get local alignments only but
>I want to have an alignment with the complete sequence.
>Is there a tool like this?
>As far as I know I have to use the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm for
>this, am I right?
Thats right!
Some implementations include:
needle EMBOSS free-ware
gap GCG commercial
swx Paracel GeneMatcher commercial
Probably a whole lot of others...
--Louis Jones
>>Thanks for your help!
>> Andrea
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