Release notes for MSPcrunch 2.1, 970617 (relative to version  2.0, 961028).
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   HEADLINES:
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 * Changed FTP site: ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/esr/MSPcrunch+Blixem

 * Crunching of gapped Wublast 2.0 output.
   The main reasons for still using MSPcrunch on gapped MSPs are:
      1. Query-region specific coverage limit.
      2. Removal of low complexity junk matches
      3. Produce output for Blixem and ACEDB.
   In -q (seqbl) output, subject insertions are removed and are marked
   with either a lower case residue or a number (-N), denoting the size of
   the removed insertion.  Both of these markers can be highlighted in
   Blixem 2.4.
   In -4 (.ace) output, gapped matches are converted to a sequence of
   ungapped segments, analogous to the .ace HMM-match format.  Some
   work is needed on ACEDB to make it call Blixem with gapped matches.

 * DESC lines are added to SEQBL output (for display in Blixem 2.4).


   New command line options:
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 * -N   Mark subject insertions with insertion-size numbers instead of
        a lower case residue.


   Bugfixes
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 * MSPs scoring above the twilight zone were not merged in -G output.


Erik Sonnhammer