MultAlin : New in the last releases =================================== In release 5.3.1, bugs have been fixed and a new output format added : see "doc Format". In release 5.3.2, the mul format has been modified to become a standard Fasta/Pearson format. In all input formats, sequences can be written with lower case letters. NEW in version 5.4 ------------------ The pairwise and the alignment processes are modified to handle alignment of large families more quickly. In the alignment process, modifications are limited to the implementation (no theoretical change). In the pairwise process, very similar sequences (more than 80% identity) are clustered together without a hierarchical classification and only one sequence in the cluster is compared to the other sequences for the global classification. This allow to reduce drastically the pairwise step that can be time limiting in automatic alignments of large families of sequences. Since version 5.4.1, it is possible to align two groups of already aligned sequences (profiles) or a sequence with a profile. MultAlin can read symbol comparison tables from GCG package, version 9 and upper. The user can parametrise the doc format.