A tutorial for the alignment module of BioJava.

The alignment module of BioJava provides an API that contains Implementations of dynamic programming algorithms for sequence alignment Reading and Writing of popular alignment file formats A single-, or multi- threaded multiple sequence alignment algorithm. </td> </tr>

This tutorial is split into several chapters.

Chapter 1 - Quick Installation

Chapter 2 - Global alignment - Needleman and Wunsch algorithm

Chapter 3 - Local alignment - Smith-Waterman algorithm

Chapter 4 - Multiple Sequence alignment

Chapter 5 - Reading and writing of multiple alignments

Chapter 6 - BLAST - why you don't need BioJava for parsing BLAST

BioJava: an open-source framework for bioinformatics in 2012
Andreas Prlic; Andrew Yates; Spencer E. Bliven; Peter W. Rose; Julius Jacobsen; Peter V. Troshin; Mark Chapman; Jianjiong Gao; Chuan Hock Koh; Sylvain Foisy; Richard Holland; Gediminas Rimsa; Michael L. Heuer; H. Brandstatter-Muller; Philip E. Bourne; Scooter Willis
Bioinformatics (2012) 28 (20): 2693-2695.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts494

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