<tt>Termal</tt>: a fast and interactive terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments

Abstract We present termal, a fast, interactive, terminal-based viewer for multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), designed for use on remote systems such as high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. Unlike traditional graphical viewers, termal runs entirely within a terminal, but like graphical viewers, it offers features such as scrolling, zooming, consensus/conservation visualization, and colour schemes.