[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1029719: ITP: libwfa2 -- exact gap-affine algorithm

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: libwfa2 -- exact gap-affine algorithm
Package: wnpp
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : libwfa2
  Version         : 2.3.1
  Upstream Author : Santiago Marco-Sola <santiagomsola at gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/smarco/WFA2-lib
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : exact gap-affine algorithm
 The wavefront alignment (WFA) algorithm is an exact gap-affine algorithm
 that takes advantage of homologous regions between the sequences to
 accelerate the alignment process. Unlike to traditional dynamic
 programming algorithms that run in quadratic time, the WFA runs in time
 O(ns+s^2), proportional to the sequence length n and the alignment score
 s, using O(s^2) memory (or O(s) using the ultralow/BiWFA mode).
 Moreover, the WFA algorithm exhibits simple computational patterns that
 the modern compilers can automatically vectorize for different
 architectures without adapting the code. To intuitively illustrate why
 the WFA algorithm is so interesting, look at the following figure. The
 left panel shows the cells computed by a classical dynamic programming
 based algorithm (like Smith-Waterman or Needleman Wunsch). In contrast,
 the right panel shows the cells computed by the WFA algorithm to obtain
 the same result (i.e., the optimal alignment).

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian Med Packaging Team at
   https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libwfa2