SSW Library: An SIMD Smith-Waterman C/C++ Library for Use in Genomic   Applications
  Summary: The Smith Waterman (SW) algorithm, which produces the optimal pairwise alignment between two sequences, is frequently used as a key component of fast heuristic read mapping and variation detection tools, but current implementations are either designed as monolithic protein database searching tools or are embedded into other tools. To facilitate easy integration of the fast Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) SW algorithm into third party software, we wrote a C/C++ library, which extends Farrars Striped SW (SSW) to return alignment information in addition to the optimal SW score. Availability: SSW is available both as a C/C++ software library, as well as a stand alone alignment tool wrapping the librarys functionality at https://github.com/mengyao/Complete- Striped-Smith-Waterman-Library Contact: marth@bc.edu 
Mengyao Zhao, Wan-Ping Lee, Erik Garrison and Gabor T. Marth
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