Section: Software and Platforms

YASS – Local homology search

Actively maintained.

Software self-assessment following the mechanisms provided by Inria Evaluation Committee for software evaluation: A-4, SO-3, SM-2, EM-3, SDL-4, DA-4, CD-4, MS-4, TPM-4

Software web site : http://bioinfo.lifl.fr/yass/

Licence: GPL

YASS is a software devoted to the classical problem of genomic pairwise alignment, and use most of our knowledge to design and implement efficient seeding techniques these last years. It is frequently used, it always receives more than 300 web queries per month (excluding local queries), and is also frequently downloaded and cited.