The project focuses on using the capabilities of Cell processor for computing sequence alignments. In order to achieve this, existing algorithms used for sequence alignment need to be rewritten so that they could be efficiently executed on Cell processor. This process involves making use of two main features of Cell processors - parallelisation and vectorisation, which ensure achieving maximum performance. Two main algorithms for sequence alignment to be analyzed in this project are Needleman-Wunsch (for global sequence alignment) and Smith-Waterman (for local sequence alignment) algorithm....