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+Mummer is a system for aligning whole genome sequences. Using an efficient
+data structure called a suffix tree, the system is able rapidly to align
+sequences containing millions of nucleotides whether in complete or draft
+form. MUMmer can also align incomplete genomes; it handles the 100s or 1000s
+of contigs from a shotgun sequencing project with ease, and will align them to
+another set of contigs or a genome using the NUCmer program included with the
+system.