Structural Biology Software Database
Structural Biology Software Database

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Category: Gene and Protein Sequence Alignment, Phylogenetic Search and Analysis
NW (pairwise Needleman and Wunsch sequence alignment program)
Last Update: 02-02-2001

Description:
NW is an implementation of the Needleman and Wunsch dynamic programming sequence alignment algorithm. It reads PIR format sequence files and reports sequence similarity calculated in a number of different ways. Optionally it can generate a PIR format alignment file. NW is freely available for use by not-for-profit organisations. Commerical use is not permitted without the permission of the author. It is supplied as a gzipped tar file of source code.

Homepage:
http://www.bioinf.org.uk/software/

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