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 ...

The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm. In the most ...