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type: software
authors:
  - given-names: "Timo"
    family-names: "Lassmann"
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-2691"
title: "Kalign 3: multiple sequence alignment of large datasets"
version: 3.5.1
date-released: 2026-02-27
url: "https://github.com/TimoLassmann/kalign"
repository-code: "https://github.com/TimoLassmann/kalign"
license: Apache-2.0
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  authors:
    - given-names: "Timo"
      family-names: "Lassmann"
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0138-2691"
  title: "Kalign 3: multiple sequence alignment of large datasets"
  journal: "Bioinformatics"
  volume: 36
  issue: 6
  start: 1928
  end: 1929
  year: 2020
  month: 3
  day: 20
  doi: "10.1093/bioinformatics/btz795"
  url: "https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/36/6/1928/5607735"
  publisher:
    name: "Oxford University Press"
abstract: "Kalign is a fast multiple sequence alignment program for biological sequences (protein, DNA, RNA) with optimized algorithms and multi-threading support."
keywords:
  - "multiple sequence alignment"
  - "bioinformatics"
  - "computational biology"
  - "sequence analysis"
  - "phylogenetics"