diff --git a/ClustalParser.cabal b/ClustalParser.cabal
--- a/ClustalParser.cabal
+++ b/ClustalParser.cabal
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 -- PVP summary:      +-+------- breaking API changes
 --                   | | +----- non-breaking API additions
 --                   | | | +--- code changes with no API change
-version:             1.2.1
+version:             1.2.2
 synopsis:            Libary for parsing Clustal tools output
 description:         Currently contains parsers and datatypes for: clustalw2, clustalo, mlocarna, cmalign
                      .
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
                      Cmalign is a multiple sequence alignment program based on RNA family models and produces
                      ,among others, clustal output. It is part of infernal <http://infernal.janelia.org/>.
                      
-license:             GPL-3.0
+license:             GPL-3
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Florian Eggenhofer
-maintainer:          egg@tbi.univie.ac.at
+maintainer:          egg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
 -- copyright:           
 category:            Bioinformatics
 build-type:          Simple
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 
 source-repository this
   type:     git
-  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/ClustalParser/tree/1.2.1
-  tag:      1.2.1
+  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/ClustalParser/tree/1.2.2
+  tag:      1.2.2
 
 library
   -- Modules exported by the library.
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 -*-change-log-*-
+1.2.2 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@cs.uni-freiburg.de> 07. March 2018
+        * Clustal parser can now parse alignments with missing consensus
+	annotation
 1.2.1 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@cs.uni-freiburg.de> 06. February 2017
         * Structural alignment parser now works with multiline consensus structures
 1.2.0 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@cs.uni-freiburg.de> 07. January 2017
diff --git a/src/Bio/ClustalParser.hs b/src/Bio/ClustalParser.hs
--- a/src/Bio/ClustalParser.hs
+++ b/src/Bio/ClustalParser.hs
@@ -140,15 +140,24 @@
   entrySlices' <- many1 genParserClustalEntrySlice
   --extract length of identifier and spacer to determine offset of conservation track
   let offsetLenght = length (entrySequenceSliceIdentifier (head entrySlices')) + spacerLength (head entrySlices')
+  conservationTrackSlice  <- choice [(lookAhead (string "\n")), (try (genParserConservationTrackSlice offsetLenght))]
+  --spacerAndConservationTrackSlice <- many1 (noneOf "\n")
+  --let conservationTrackSlice' = drop offsetLenght spacerAndConservationTrackSlice
+  --newline
+  let conservationTrackSlice' = if (conservationTrackSlice == "\n") then "" else conservationTrackSlice
+  optional newline
+  return $ ClustalAlignmentSlice entrySlices' conservationTrackSlice'
+
+genParserConservationTrackSlice :: Int -> GenParser Char st String
+genParserConservationTrackSlice offsetLenght = do
   spacerAndConservationTrackSlice <- many1 (noneOf "\n")
   let conservationTrackSlice' = drop offsetLenght spacerAndConservationTrackSlice
   newline
-  optional newline
-  return $ ClustalAlignmentSlice entrySlices' conservationTrackSlice'
+  return $ conservationTrackSlice'
 
 genParserClustalEntrySlice :: GenParser Char st ClustalAlignmentEntrySlice
 genParserClustalEntrySlice = do
-  sliceIdentifier <- many1 (noneOf " ")
+  sliceIdentifier <- many1 (noneOf " \n")
   spacer <- many1 (char ' ')
   sliceSequence <- parseNucleotideAlignmentEntry
   newline