To cite package ‘pwalign’ in publications use:

  Aboyoun P, Gentleman R (2024). _pwalign: Perform pairwise sequence
  alignments_. R package version 1.1.0,
  <https://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {pwalign: Perform pairwise sequence alignments},
    author = {Patrick Aboyoun and Robert Gentleman},
    year = {2024},
    note = {R package version 1.1.0},
    url = {https://bioconductor.org/packages/pwalign},
  }