We describe a new method of processing similarity queries of a proteic multiple alignment with a set (database) of protein sequences, or similarity queries of a protein sequence with a set of protein alignments. We use a representation of multiple alignments as alignment-graphs. Comparisons with different classical methods is made. This new method allows the detection of subtle similarities which are not found by the other methods. It has direct applications for similarities querying with the database of protein domains ProDom
