Approximate local alignment via chained MEM divergence estimation for detecting horizontal gene transfer
Grace Oualline, Sakshi Pandey, Xiaolei Brian Zhang, Christina A. Boucher, Yun William Yu
alamem and alasight are tools for fast and memory-efficient local alignment and horizontal gene transfer detection in bacterial genomes.
bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics