[EMBOSS] Help with stretcher

[Peter Rice]

Hi Michael,

> The thing is, stretcher works fine for a lot of other examples (I'm
> running a whole pipeline here) of the same problem; and I tried needle
> but it complained the sequences were too long and that I should try
> stretcher...

Ah ... that is because stretcher uses a more memory-efficient implementation 
of the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm.

> It would be good to remove this problem from stretcher given the size
> limit on needle...

We will try. As we did not write stretcher we have some problems understanding 
the code, but we do know where to look.

regards,

Peter