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Pruning the Search, Not the Signal: Adaptive-Banding Needleman-Wunsch Sequence Alignment via Protein Language Model Confidence
This paper introduces AB-NW, an adaptive-banding Needleman-Wunsch alignment method that improves speed while maintaining accuracy on challenging sequence alignment tasks.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.26.747234