2 days ago · Mummers spent New Year's Eve making final preparations for the parade in Philadelphia.

MUMmer is a system for rapidly aligning entire genomes, whether in complete or draft form. For example, MUMmer 3.0 can find all 20-basepair or longer exact matches between a pair of 5 …

14th century, England. Performers dressed as a stag, rabbit and boar dance to the music of a gittern. The image is not labeled and these have been interpreted as "mummers" and " minstrels." [1][2] …

In 1790, Philadelphia became the capital of the United States, and President George Washington initiated a tradition of receiving “calls” from mummers at his mansion.

MUMmer is very fast and easy to run. The current version, release 4.x, can find all 20-bp maximal exact matches between two bacterial genomes in just a few seconds on a typical desktop or laptop computer.

MUMmer is a versatile alignment tool for DNA and protein sequences. To install the software, download the latest release and follow the installation instructions.

Dec 24, 2025 · The American Folklife Center has a tradition of performing a mummers’ play, a traditional form of folk drama, each holiday season. This year we reach back into the vaults to present our very …