Cape Cod sand dunes on a cloudy day. Photo by Nicholas Bartos. I’m excited to share that my R package ssw is now available on CRAN. This package began as a weekend project in 2020. ssw offers an R interface for SSW (Zhao et al. 2013), a high-performance C/C++ implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm for sequence alignment using SIMD. You can install ssw from CRAN with: install.packages("ssw") For clarity, I will refer the R package as ssw-r from now …