Posting on behalf of Hannah, since her new account is getting blocked from replying:

hi! resident scientist at Benchling here! searching near-exact sequence can be really useful! for example, sometimes i would like to find if any of my plasmid has a certain signal peptide, it would be so hard without this search algorithm because so many DNA sequences can be translated to the same signal peptide. it would be great if i could just paste the amino acids and i could identify which plasmids contain the signal peptide.