SWIPE

SWIPE - Smith-Waterman database searches with inter-sequence SIMD parallelisation

SWIPE is a tool for performing rapid local alignment searches in protein sequence databases. It is a highly optimized implementation of the Smith-Waterman algoritm using SIMD parallel computing technology available on common CPUs.

News

20120224 SWIPE version 2.0.1 released. Fixed bug in display of alignment coordinates in XML and TSV formats.

20120201 SWIPE version 2.0 released. This version incorporates a number of new features compared to the initial release, most notably hit statistics, alignments, as well as support for nucleotide sequences, large databases and MPI.

20110601 Paper published in BMC Bioinformatics.

20110411 Score matrix files are now included in the distribution.

20110305 Initial version released.

Downloads

Source code and Linux 64-bit executables:

Documentation

Documentation is meagre at the moment, but please see the README and CHANGES file.

License

Source code and executables for SWIPE is available under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

Reference

Rognes T (2011)
Faster Smith-Waterman database searches with inter-sequence SIMD parallelisation
BMC Bioinformatics 12, 221

Copyright

© 2008-2012 Torbjørn Rognes, University of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital and Sencel Bioinformatics AS.

Updated 8 Feb 2012