zAlign NEWS -- history of user-visible changes
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Changes in zAlign 0.9.1 (initial version of this document)
  - Support for pairwise alignment of two biological sequences using a
    four-stage alignment algorithm;
  - tested successfully on Linux and Solaris x86 platforms;
  - tested successfully using Open MPI and MPICH-1 MPI implementations;
  - support for two operation modes, implemented by different executables --
    standalone ('zalign') and distributed ('mpialign');
  - support for score parametrization (option '-s <scores>');
  - support for stage 2 (blocked alignment) configuration with the following
    parameters: split matrix subdivision ('-S <split>'), horizontal block
    subdivision ('-H <hblk>') and vertical block subdivision ('-V <vblk>');
  - stage 2 progress is displayed using a progess indicator;
  - stage 4 output closely resembles BLAST output, on purpose.
