Global and local sequence alignment with a bounded number of gaps

Basic local alignment search tool

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Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

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Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

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A general method applicable to the search for similarities in the amino acid sequence of two proteins

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