Update Go version to 1.27 and enable SIMD compilation

This commit updates the project to use Go version 1.27 for all build and testing processes. It also introduces support for experimental SIMD code compilation, enabling it by default while ensuring a portable scalar fallback is available. Documentation has been updated to reflect the new Go version and the use of the experimental SIMD package.

doc/book/installation.qmd

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 ## Prerequisites
 
-The *OBITools4* are developped using the [GO programming language](https://go.dev/), we stick to the latest version of the language, today the $1.21.4$. If you want to download and compile the sources yourself, you first need to install the corresponding compiler on your system. Some parts of the soft are also written in C, therefore a recent C compiler is also requested, GCC on Linux or Windows, the Developer Tools on Mac.
+The *OBITools4* are developped using the [GO programming language](https://go.dev/), we stick to the latest version of the language, today the $1.27$. If you want to download and compile the sources yourself, you first need to install the corresponding compiler on your system. Some computations (distances between k-mers) use the experimental `simd` package of Go: the `Makefile` compiles them with `GOEXPERIMENT=simd`, and the installation script uses a Go 1.27 compiler for that reason. The resulting programs run on any processor, a portable code being used when no SIMD instruction is available. Some parts of the soft are also written in C, therefore a recent C compiler is also requested, GCC on Linux or Windows, the Developer Tools on Mac.
 
 Whatever the installation you decide for, you will have to ensure that a C compiler is available on your system.