FASTA program discussion list

[William Pearson <>]

FASTA version 36.3.2 has been released at:

http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/fasta36/fasta-36.3.2.tar.gz

This release fixes some bugs that were introduced with the ability to specify 
a variable scoring matrix and introduces SSE2 accelerated versions of 
ggsearch36 and glsearch36 (using code provided by Michael Farrar).  

In addition, more of the MPI versions of the programs have been tested and 
work correctly. In particular, bugs that causes crashes and incorrect 
alignments in DNA comparisons with both strand orientations have been fixed.  
The MPI (_mpi) programs are not as efficient as the threaded (_t) versions, 
but improvements will continue.

As always, please let me know about any problems.

Bill Pearson