LalnView is a graphical program for visualizing local alignments between two sequences (protein or nucleic acids). Sequences are represented by colored rectangles to give an overall picture of the similarities between the two sequences. Blocks of similarity between the two sequences are colored according to the degree of identity between segments. A suitable alignment tool for protein sequences is SIM at ExPASy: https://web.expasy.org/sim/ SIM finds a user-defined number of best non-intersecting alignments between two protein sequences or within a sequence. Once the alignment is computed, you can view it using LalnView. For details and citation: Duret, L., Gasteiger, E. and Perriere, G. (1996) LalnView: a graphical viewer for pairwise sequence alignments. Comput. Applic. Biosci., 12, 507-510