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Goal
it draws an input alignment to a png file, one sequence per line and one pixel per character.
This can be useful to quickly visualize a large alignment where other viewers like bioJS or seaview might struggle.
Color choice
There are 2 different color schemes:
The color scheme is selected from the alignment alphabet with the bioSyntax scheme being preferred in case of alphabet ambiguity.
remarks
I chose
png
as the command name but it might make sense to let the user decide the output format and rename the command to something likeimage
.