diff --git a/StockholmAlignment.cabal b/StockholmAlignment.cabal
--- a/StockholmAlignment.cabal
+++ b/StockholmAlignment.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                StockholmAlignment
-version:             1.0.1
+version:             1.0.2
 synopsis:            Libary for Stockholm aligmnent format
 description:         Libary containing parsing and visualisation functions and datastructures for Stockholm aligmnent format
 license:             GPL-3
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
 
 source-repository this
   type:     git
-  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/StockholmAlignment/tree/1.0.1
-  tag:      1.0.1
+  location: https://github.com/eggzilla/StockholmAlignment/tree/1.0.2
+  tag:      1.0.2
 
 library
   -- Modules exported by the library.
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 -*-change-log-*-
+1.0.2 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> 12. April 2017
+        * Included additional tag characters
 1.0.1 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> 14. January 2017
         * Linted code
 1.0.0 Florian Eggenhofer <egg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> 21. December 2016
diff --git a/src/Bio/StockholmParser.hs b/src/Bio/StockholmParser.hs
--- a/src/Bio/StockholmParser.hs
+++ b/src/Bio/StockholmParser.hs
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
   many (try newline)
   _stockholmToken <- many1 genParseToken
   string "//\n"
+  optional (try (string "\n"))
   return (tokenToStockholm (T.pack _version) _stockholmToken)
 
 -- | Parse the input as StockholmAlignment datatype
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@
   many newline
   string "#=GF"
   char ' '
-  _tag <- many1 upper
+  _tag <- many1 (oneOf "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ*")
   many1 (char ' ')
   _info <- many1 (noneOf "\n")
   newline