Comparison of programs
SW and BLAST: local alignments
FASTA: global alignments
BLAST can report more than one segment of HSP per database entry,
FASTA reports only one segment (match) for each database entry.
Speed (not on the Bioccelarator):
BLAST > FASTA >> SW
Sensitivity: SW > FASTA > BLAST
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