MPsrch --True Smith and Waterman algorithm search tool
What you can do:
Find similar sequences to a query protein sequence from SWISS-PROT using an exhaustive true Smith and Waterman algorithm.
Highlights:
- MPsrch is a biological sequence comparison tool that implements the true Smith and Waterman algorithm.
- It allows an rigorous search in a reasonable computational time.
- MPsrch utilizes an exhaustive algorithm, which is recognized as the most sensitive sequence comparison method available, whereas Blast and Fasta utilize a heuristic one.
- As a consequence, MPsrch is capable of identifying hits in cases where Blast and Fasta fail and also reports fewer false-positive hits.
Keywords:
- sequence comparison tool
- sequence alignment tool
- sequence similarity search tool
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This record last updated: 04-17-2014