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Please solve the following string alignment problem using Needleman - Wunsch (no coding). You need to use the optimal alignment algorithm with the strings TACATACA and GATTAGC.
Please provide the alignment matrix, the traceback and the string alignment.
Remember that the penalty for both a substitution and a gap is -1 . A match score is +1, but it needs to come from the diagonal.