Answer to Question #149549 in Bioinformatics for Muhammad Abuzar

Question

Name an application where you would use a method like BLAST and not a Needleman-Wunsch alignment. Name an application where you would use a slow method like Needleman and Wunsch, rather than a BLAST-like method. (2)

Answer 1

The BLAST-like method can be applied in seeded pattern-matching in Nucleotide, while a Needleman-Wunsch alignment can be applied for memory-optimized in dynamic programming