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 ## Multi-threaded Alignment
 
-`seq-smith` supports multi-threaded alignment for 1-vs-many scenarios. This is useful when you have a query sequence and want to align it against a large database of target sequences.
-
-Available functions:
-
-- `global_align_many`
-- `local_align_many`
-- `local_global_align_many`
-- `overlap_align_many`
+`seq-smith` alignment functions release the GIL while computing alignments. In order to reduce overhead associated with releasing and acquiring the GIL for each alignment, `seq-smith` also provides `*_many` versions of alignment functions for 1-vs-many scenarios. This is useful when you have a query sequence and want to align it against a large number of target sequences.
 
 Example: