Discussion: Feasibility of developing a needleman-wunsch global aligner about gkl-rs

[philipc]

I think it already is global alignment: broadinstitute/gatk#6576 (comment)

But either way, yes I think it is feasible to adapt GKL-rs to handle both.

[rhysnewell]

Oh easy as, I remember seeing this comment of yours ages ago but must have forgotten about it. Glad to know it's easy, just wanted to double check there wasn't some weirdness happening in the background that would global/local alignments difficult.

Knowing it is already global, i'll go ahead and play around with it. Thanks again!

[philipc]

That might have been from #11. So there might still be some overhang differences to account for in order to get the same results as WFA2-lib, but that won't be hard.

[rhysnewell]

Alright, nice I'll keep you posted then