Definitely not a great approach. It's worth pointing toward the actual algorithms commonly used for local and global alignments (global is the one to use in th

Definitely not a great approach. It's worth pointing toward the actual algorithms commonly used for local and global alignments (global is the one to use in the coronavirus genome case). Local alignments: Smith-Waterman [1]. Global alignments: Needleman–Wunsch [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman_algorit... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needleman%E2%80%93Wunsch_algor...