The issue which originally concerned me was the somewhat broad read I got out of it. It seems to wish to cover SIMD applied in a general sense to a homology search. It is as far as I can tell, only at the application stage, so a cease and desist is really not enforcable. It has been suggested that there may be applicable prior art. On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 21:33, Chris Dwan (CCGB) wrote: > > If this goes through, any thoughts on whether it is going to put the > > kabash on the AGBLAST and Altivec-ized HMM? > > If (as it says on the link) it truly covers all Smith-Watermans on SIMD, > we could be in a lot more trouble than that. Time to turn off those > optimizing compilers folks... > > -C > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers@bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web: http://scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615