EMBOSS Needle
Global pairwise alignment, the reference implementation.
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EMBOSS Needle
EMBL-EBI · ebi.ac.uk
- Does
- Global pairwise alignment, the reference implementation.
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- Free
Use this when
Two sequences of similar length that you expect to align end to end. Use EMBOSS Water instead when you only expect a shared region.
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About this tool
Needleman–Wunsch global alignment of two sequences, with the gap penalties and scoring matrix exposed.
Science last reviewed .