It is super interesting! I was at a talk where a genetics company used the Smith-Waterman algorithm (1) to perform sequence alignment. Still I believe it took a

It is super interesting! I was at a talk where a genetics company used the Smith-Waterman algorithm (1) to perform sequence alignment. Still I believe it took a long time (24 hours?) to perform the calculations. They were working on optimizing the code as doing so could mean a faster turnaround. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Waterman_algorithm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith–Waterman_algorithm