Table 1.
Comparison of existing methods
| Program | Algorithm | Stand alone version |
Give multiple identifications? |
Control of germline database |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IMGT/High V-Quest | Local alignment | No | Yes (no quality score) | No |
| IgBLAST | BLAST searches performed against a user-selected germline V gene database | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SoDA | Local alignment and 3D dynamic programming | Yes | No | Yes |
| iHMMune-align | Hidden Markov model | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Conserved Anchor method | Hamming distance after finding conserved anchors | Yes | Yes (when tied) | Yes |