A lightweight and super fast C/C++ library for sequence alignment using edit distance.

Calculating edit distance of two strings is as simple as:

edlibAlign("hello", 5, "world!", 6, edlibDefaultAlignConfig()).editDistance; Features

* Calculates edit distance (Levehnstein distance). * It can find optimal alignment path (instructions how to transform first sequence into the second sequence). * It can find just the start and/or end locations of alignment path - can be useful when speed is more important than having exact alignment path. * Supports multiple alignment methods: global(NW), prefix(SHW) and infix(HW), each of them useful for different scenarios. * You can extend character equality definition, enabling you to e.g. have wildcard characters, to have case insensitive alignment or to work with degenerate nucleotides. * It can easily handle small or very large sequences, even when finding alignment path, while consuming very little memory. * Super fast thanks to Myers's bit-vector algorithm.

This package contains the Python3 module.