LASTZ - pairwise DNA sequence aligner
=========

This repository contains the latest official working branch of LASTZ.
Official **releases** are tagged, and can be found in
https://github.com/lastz/lastz/releases.
Users are encouraged to use a tagged release, as this working branch may not
be stable.

As of this writing, the latest official release is version 1.04.22.
Additional LASTZ releases, including all releases prior to September 2021, can
be found at http://www.bx.psu.edu/~rsharris/lastz (in the form of tarballs).

For information about installation and use, see https://lastz.github.io/lastz
(equivalent to README.lastz.html in this repository).

The UCSC genome browser group has included lastz and lastz_D in their prebuilt
binaries (the version there might lag behind the latest version here):
```bash  
    http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/
    http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.x86_64/
```

A GPU accelerated version, SegAlign, can be found at
https://github.com/gsneha26/SegAlign.

Updated Aug/7/2022 by Bob Harris (the LASTZ guy)

