- Author: Slaviana Pavlovich
- Acknowledgment: This code was submitted for the exam in the "Computing" module as part of MSc in Bioinformatics and Theoretical Systems Biology at Imperial College London
- Date: April 19th 2020
- Language: Python 3.7
This repository contains the Python script that implements the Smith Waterman algorithm to produce a sequence alignment. The program will read two sequences from two files and print the alignment to the screen. The algorithm is simplified in that it only needs to use a basic scoring method, regardless of the nature of the sequences being aligned. The scores are: match (+1), mismatch (-1) and gap (-1).