Hi all, I've posted an update on my most recent work on bio-maf. Highlights include BGZF compression support, a new maf_extract command-line tool for random access, and my discoveries from testing on the full UCSC multiz46way dataset. http://csw.github.com/bioruby-maf/blog/2012/08/05/bgzf_and_testing/ -- Clayton Wheeler cswh at umich.edu