broadinstitute / poasta

Fast and exact gap-affine partial order alignment
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Implement WF-Adapt heuristic to prune wavefronts #11

Closed lrvdijk closed 5 months ago

lrvdijk commented 1 year ago

The original WFA paper describes a heuristic to prune the wavefronts under consideration, by removing those that are lagging far behind the current farthest point. We could implement the same heuristic for our POA algorithm.

For long and highly diverse sequences, this might be a necessary step to make the alignment feasible.