Find a Highest-Scoring Alignment of Two Strings solved by 923

Global Alignment Problem

Find the highest-scoring alignment between two strings using a scoring matrix.

Given: Two amino acid strings.

Return: The maximum alignment score of these strings followed by an alignment achieving this maximum score. Use the BLOSUM62 scoring matrix and indel penalty σ = 5. (If multiple alignments achieving the maximum score exist, you may return any one.)

Sample Dataset

PLEASANTLY
MEANLY

Sample Output

8
PLEASANTLY
-MEA--N-LY

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