TY - RPRT TI - Pruning the Search, Not the Signal: Adaptive-Banding Needleman-Wunsch via Protein Language Model Confidence AU - Shoaib, M. AU - Ali, W. PY - 2026 DO - 10.64898/2026.08.26.747234 UR - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.747234v1 ID - 10.64898/2026.08.26.747234 ER -