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Text Alignment with Smith-Waterman

Jan Wijffels

Last update: 14 September 2023

Software version identifier: 0.1.3, 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.4


Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Find similarities between texts using the Smith-Waterman algorithm. The algorithm performs local sequence alignment and determines similar regions between two strings. The Smith-Waterman algorithm is explained in the paper: "Identification of common molecular subsequences" by T.F.Smith and M.S.Waterman (1981), available at <doi:10.1016/0022-2836(81)90087-5>. This package implements the same logic for sequences of words and letters instead of molecular sequences.