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package org.biojava.bio.seq.io;

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import org.biojava.bio.symbol.Alignment;

/**
 * @author Matthew Pocock
 * @author Samiul Hasan
 * @author Thomas Down
 * @author Keith James
 */
public interface AlignmentFormat {
    /**
     * Read in an alignment from a buffered reader object
     * @param reader the reader from which to read in the alignment
     */
    public Alignment read(BufferedReader reader);
}