Generic function STRING-ALIGNMENT

Package:

CLARITY

Syntax:

  string-alignment string-1 string-2
  

Arguments and Values:

string-1---a string

string-2---a string

Description:

The generic function string-alignment uses a variant of the Needleman-Wunsch and Smith-Waterman algorithms to align two strings and then returns their alignment score. It takes two parameters string-1 and string-2, the strings to be aligned.

cl-prompt: (clarity:string-alignment "UDUUID" "UUDDID")
  cl-prompt: -2