Naoto Ukiyama (ukiyama@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Hiroshi Imai (imai@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science,
The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan
This paper addresses several issues in parallel multiple alignments, and reports some preliminary computational results of their implementation on CM5. Use of parallelism in the diagonal direction is laid stress on, which is quite useful especially when aligning similar strings. Some connection with the parallel approximate string matching algorithm by Landau and Vishkin [1] is also touched upon.