[GSoC] [gsoc]All-Java Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA)

[Diana Lungu]

Hello to everyone!

My name is Diana Lungu and I am an undergraduate at University Alexandru 
Ioan Cuza, Faculty of Computer Science Iasi, Romania.

I am interested in Gsoc 2010 project "All-Java Multiple Sequence 
Alignment (MSA)". I have worked on several projects in Java in the last 
two years and I really enjoy Java programming. I have spent a nice 
amount of time developing with java the last two years but this will be 
my first open source project. Currently I am attending a course in 
Bioinformatics at my Faculty of Computer Science that is why I think 
this project suits me. There are several algorithms that offer an 
aligment from multiple sequences: Carrillo-Lipman, Feng and Doolittle, 
Barton-Stenberg etc. Is there a preference for one of these algorithms? 
What is more important: speed or the best optimum?

Have a lovely day :)