Source: r-bioc-pwalign Standards-Version: 4.7.3 Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Michael R. Crusoe , Section: gnu-r Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-r Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-bioc-biocgenerics, r-bioc-s4vectors, r-bioc-iranges, r-bioc-biostrings (>= 2.71.5), r-bioc-xvector, architecture-is-64-bit, architecture-is-little-endian, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-pwalign Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-pwalign.git Homepage: https://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: r-bioc-pwalign Architecture: any Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Recommends: ${R:Recommends}, Suggests: ${R:Suggests}, Description: Perform pairwise sequence alignments 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.