A.1 Brief Descriptions

The alignment display format is set with the -m option followed by a number from 0 to 11 as you can see in the following table.

Option number

Brief description

0

The default pairwise display. Classic BLAST format.

1-6

Various types of query-anchored multiple sequence alignments. The query is anchored and the aligned regions of the subjects are displayed underneath.

7

eXtensible Markup Language (XML) output.

8

Tabular output, without header lines.

9

Tabular output, with header lines.

10

ASN.1 text

11

ASN.1 binary