What are the differences between Dynamic Time Warping and Needleman-Wunsch algorithm?

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I am looking for the differences between Dynamic Time Warping and Needleman-Wunsch algorithm.

Basically, they both find an alignment score. I need to calculate alignment (similarity) score between short sequence of strings (<20 characters) and there are a couple of thousands of them.

I wasn't able to figure out the differences between the two algorithms and decide which one to choose for my work. Can anyone please clear me the differences?

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