To address some of the karmic imbalance created by computational scientists complaining about other people’s code, I am listing here some (not all) of other people’s code that I love.
IgBLAST
IgBLAST is a sequence alignment tool for immunoglobulin sequences implemented in the NCBI C++ toolkit – it applies the classic BLAST algorithm to searching immunoglobulin germline gene databases. It always impresses me how quickly it works. The paper is here, and the authors are Jian Ye, Ning Ma, Thomas L. Madden and James M. Ostell.
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