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Table 1.

Balibase results. Categories ("Cat.") refer to the five Balibase categories. Average 1 is the average sum-of-pairs score over all 141 alignments, while average 2 is the average across all five categories.

Method	CPU time (sec.)	Cat. 1	Cat. 2	Cat. 3	Cat. 4	Cat. 5	Average 1	Average 2
Kalign	27	0.85	0.92	0.79	0.88	0.92	0.86	0.87
ClustalW	75	0.85	0.93	0.75	0.85	0.86	0.86	0.85
Muscle	75	0.88	0.93	0.82	0.88	0.97	0.89	0.89
Mafft	100	0.86	0.92	0.78	0.91	0.96	0.88	0.89
Dialign	234	0.80	0.89	0.68	0.90	0.94	0.83	0.84
T-Coffee	1286	0.86	0.93	0.78	0.92	0.96	0.88	0.89