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+ Finds the best local alignments between two sequences
+ matcher -asequence $input1 -bsequence $input2 -outfile $out_file1 -alternatives $alternatives -gapopen $gapopen -gapextend $gapextend -aformat3 $out_format1 -auto
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+#! /usr/bin/perl -w
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+my $cmd_string = join (" ",@ARGV);
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+ print "outfile: $thisLine\n";
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+ print $thisLine,"\n";
+ }
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