PyNAST: Python Nearest Alignment Space Termination tool
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The official PyNAST source code repository. For documentation on installing and using PyNAST, see http://qiime.org/pynast. This documentation will refer to the latest release version of PyNAST. If you're working with a development version of PyNAST, you should refer to the documentation in PyNAST/doc/.

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Citing PyNAST
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If you make use of [PyNAST](http://qiime.org/pynast) in published work, please cite:

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment.
J. Gregory Caporaso, Kyle Bittinger, Frederic D. Bushman, Todd Z. DeSantis, Gary L. Andersen, and Rob Knight. 
January 15, 2010, DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp636. Bioinformatics 26: 266-267.

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Requests for help with PyNAST should be directed to the [QIIME Forum](http://forum.qiime.org).
