On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:19 pm, Joe Landman wrote: > Hi Chris: > > I would like to hear more about this patent. Any id# on it? > I would expect it to be this one:- http://l2.espacenet.com/espacenet/viewer?PN=EP1320827&CY=gb&LG=en&DB=EPD ID#: EP1320827, WO02075636 , AU9442001, WO0227638 Basically, it claims a patent on applying SIMD instruction sets to Smith-Waterman. These are the papers:- http://www.sencel.com/press/publications.html Which only goes to show that even without the patent system changes the US is pushing upon the EU, we are quite capable of matching the USPTO. D. Huen