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DNA sequence alignment is a very important problem in bioinformatics. The algorithm proposed by Smith-Waterman (SW) is an exact method that obtains optimal local alignments in qua...
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A standard notation, that unambiguously expresses different aspects of a system, is important to the process of software development. The expressiveness of a standard notation hel...
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The Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of a programmable processor is the native languageof the machine. It defines the set of operations and resourcesthat are optimized for that ...