Find a Highest-Scoring Local Alignment of Two Strings solved by 740

Feb. 6, 2014, 3:48 a.m. by Rosalind Team

Local Alignment Problem

Find the highest-scoring local alignment between two strings.

Given: Two amino acid strings.

Return: The maximum score of a local alignment of the strings, followed by a local alignment of these strings achieving the maximum score. Use the PAM250 scoring matrix and indel penalty σ = 5. (If multiple local alignments achieving the maximum score exist, you may return any one.)

Sample Dataset

MEANLY
PENALTY

Sample Output

15
EANL-Y
ENALTY

Extra Dataset

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