Following the locus name is the sequence infor- mation. This consists of one or more lines of characters of data. White characters will be stripped from the input. There should be no more than 95 characters per line. The sequence infor- mation is terminated by the beginning of the comment block of the next sequence, or by the end of the file.
Provision is made to edit the comment lines.
The format defined for the matrix file is weak, and will likely be rethought or at least greatly expanded. This description was valid when written. Each entry line contains a definition for a set of pairs. This definition consists of three fields, separated by spaces or tabs. The first field is a floating point number, which defines the score value for all pairwise comparisons that are to be defined.