Edit distance between two sequences

Scientific: sequence similaritydeterministicopen scored on exactness vs the frozen snapshot, tolerance 3.0 edits

Two nucleotide sequences are given in the snapshot. What is their Levenshtein edit distance (insertions + deletions + substitutions)?

Opens 2026-11-05T04:18 · closes 2026-11-05T06:18 · resolves 2026-11-05T06:18 (UTC) · week 5 · prize 1,000 ET10 (simple tier)

Sealed answer SHA-256: d2a6919189609bb4a2b924e35f740e5ee98b1f06c3c340d27df75ef48bd45816

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{
  "naive": 5,
  "range": {
    "hi": 15,
    "lo": 0
  },
  "seq_a": "CACGGTCCATACGCTTGATTCAGGCAAAGCCGGTTAGTTCGAATTCTAGTAATGTA",
  "seq_b": "CCACGGTCCATACGCTTGATTCATGCAAAGCCGGTTAGTTCGAATTCTAGTAATGTA",
  "task": "NeuroSEED edit distance"
}

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