---
name: "psw"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wise"
version: "2.4.1-27"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/psw"
---

# psw(1)

Protein Smith-Waterman and other comparisons

## NAME

psw — Protein Smith-Waterman and other comparisons

## SYNOPSIS

**psw** \[*options* ... \]  { *seq1 seq2* }

## DESCRIPTION

psw is a short and sweet program for calculating smith waterman alginments  quickly. It was mainly written as C driver to test the underlying code which  is more useful in things like the Perl port.

## OPTIONS

- **-help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

dba (1), dnal (1), estwise (1), estwisedb (1), genewise (1), genewisedb (1), genomewise (1), promoterwise (1), pswdb (1), scanwise (1), scanwise\_server (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Philipp Benner mail@philipp-benner.de for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any   later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.