Cinema-MX: A modular and configurable alignment editor in Java 2 Phillip Lord, Julian Selley, and Terri Attwood. Multiple sequence alignments are found in many areas of molecular biology and bioinformatics. We report the development of an application "Cinema-MX" for viewing and analysing such alignments. The application was written using the Java2 language. It is highly modular, extensible, and configurable, enabling it to be used in a variety of different specialised circumstances without reducing its general usefulness. As an example we show the close integration between Cinema-MX and the PRINTS database.