Abstract

Bioinformatics is a field of research which uses computational technologies efficiently to analyze genomic data for genetic studies. The main applications of genomic studies come in similarity study, disease conformation, ancestral identification, genetic therapeutics, medicinal testing etc. All these applications need the comparison between the genetic sequences. So the algorithm development for sequence alignment is a major research area of interest for bioinformatics researchers. The paper conducts a survey on the recently proposed sequence alignment algorithms, focuses on identifying the pros and cons in each algorithm and also tries to suggest the best algorithm for each application.