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Ali Waqas

University of Engineering and Technology LahoreORCID 0000-0002-3035-3320Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:matrix factorization· 1 Assay:protein sequence· 1 Research Focus:sequence-to-function modeling· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Muhammad ShoaibiD· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 1/yr

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintSep 25, 2026

Pruning the Search, Not the Signal: Adaptive-Banding Needleman-Wunsch Sequence Alignment via Protein Language Model Confidence

Muhammad Shoaib, Ali Waqas

This paper introduces AB-NW, an adaptive-banding Needleman-Wunsch alignment method that improves speed while maintaining accuracy on challenging sequence alignment tasks.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.26.747234

protein sequencestatistical model

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