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Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2016 Mar 24;53:3.9.1–3.925. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bi0309s53

Table 4.

fasta36 output formats (-m)

-
m
Output options
0 Default, conventional 3 line alignment, identities indicated with ’:’, conservative replacements ’.’ :
MWRTCGPPYT
::..:: :::
MWKSCGYPYT
1 Similar to -m 0, but conservative replacements indicated with ’x’, non-conservative replacements ’X’ (good for highly identical alignments)
MWRTCGPPYT
xx  X
MWKSCGYPYT
2 Similar to -m 0, but 2-line alignment:
MWRTCGPPYT
..KS..Y...
3 One line alignment:
MWKSCGYPYT
6 -m 0 using HTML output with links
B BLAST alignment style:
Query     1    MSHHWGYGKHNGPEHWHKDFPIAKGERQSPVDIDTHTAKYDPSLKPLSVSYDQATSLRIL 60
             M+ WGY HNGP+HWH+ FP AKGE QSPV++ T ++DPSL+P SVSYD ++ IL
Sbjct      1    MAKEWGYASHNGPDHWHELFPNAKGENQSPVELHTKDIRHDPSLQPWSVSYDGGSAKTIL 60
  BB   BLAST alignment style with BLAST-like beginning, end
   8   BLAST tabular output
  8C   BLAST tabular output with comments
8CC   BLAST tabular output with comments and CIGAR string, annotations (Figure 3.9.2B)
8CB   BLAST tabular output with comments and Blast BTOP alignment encoding, annotations.
   9   FASTA tabular output
  9i   FASTA -m 1 output with identity, alignment length
  9C   -m 9 output with CIGAR string, annotations
  9B   -m 9 output with BTOP string, annotations
  10   Parse-able alignments with label:value output