Friday, 18 August 2017

bioinformatics - Computing Percent Identity between DNA / Amino Acid Sequence


What are some tools where I can input a pair of DNA sequences (or alternatively a pair of Amino Acid Sequences) and compute a percent similarity identity metric between them?


Is BLAST the right algorithm for this or something else?


The context is that a certain patent protects all sequences at least 90% or more identity to a given sequence. I wanted to test some candidate sequences and verify the percent identity metric.



Below I post a patent-snippet where they actually define their identity metric.


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