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pwalign

This is the released version of pwalign; for the devel version, see pwalign.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19

Perform pairwise sequence alignments


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

The two main functions in the package are pairwiseAlignment() and stringDist(). The former solves (Needleman-Wunsch) global alignment, (Smith-Waterman) local alignment, and (ends-free) overlap alignment problems. The latter computes the Levenshtein edit distance or pairwise alignment score matrix for a set of strings.

Author: Patrick Aboyoun [aut], Robert Gentleman [aut], Hervé Pagès [cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0009-0002-8272-4522

Maintainer: Hervé Pagès <hpages.on.github at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("pwalign")):

Patrick Aboyoun, Robert Gentleman. pwalign: Perform pairwise sequence alignments. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.pwalign, R package version 1.8.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("pwalign")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("pwalign")
Pairwise Sequence Alignments PDF R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Alignment, Genetics, SequenceMatching, Sequencing, Software
Version1.8.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.19 (R-4.4) (2.5 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends BiocGenerics, S4Vectors, IRanges, Biostrings (>= 2.71.5)
Imports methods, utils
System Requirements
URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/pwalign/issues
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Suggests RUnit
Linking To S4Vectors, IRanges, XVector, Biostrings
Enhances Rmpi
Depends On Me amplican, CleanBSequences, MethTargetedNGS, QSutils, R453Plus1Toolbox, sangeranalyseR, sangerseqR
Imports Me AbSolution, AntibodyForests, BIGr, ChIPpeakAnno, chromVAR, CNEr, crisprShiny, DiPALM, DominoEffect, dowser, enhancerHomologSearch, ggseqalign, GUIDEseq, IMMAN, IsoformSwitchAnalyzeR, longreadvqs, methylscaper, motifbreakR, MSA2dist, ogrdbstats, openPrimeR, PACVr, revert, scanMiR, scifer, ShortRead, SpliceImpactR, SPLINTER, StructuralVariantAnnotation, svaNUMT, TFBSTools
Suggests Me BiocGenerics, Biostrings, geneviewer, idpr, msa, mutscan, RSVSim, seqtrie
Links To Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package pwalign_1.8.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) pwalign_1.8.0.zip
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) pwalign_1.8.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) pwalign_1.8.0.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/pwalign
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign/
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