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Maybe it is worth pointing out that algorithms like Levenshtein & Longest Common Subsequence; and modules that implement them (like String::Approx) are entirely useless to genomists. (...)

There are much faster ways of doing fuzzy matching when all you need is a yes/no answer.

Thanks for the information. I frankly have a very very limited knowledge of what geneticists are doing with their DNA and other molecular sequences. I suspected that these algorithms might be slow for what geneticists are doing (which is why I recommended to look at BioPerl) but I did not know whether there were faster ways to accomplish their tasks.