Find out how to specify these options using the details button. Set the output formatting options. Reducing the output can then be accomplished, if desired, by limiting the number of alignments to be reported. A variety of different alignment formats are available. The choice of which to use is based on personal preference.
Pairwise alignment gives a good view of the quality of an individual hit.
Perform the search. Click on the search button now to initiate the search. In seconds, the query sequence has been compared to all of the entries in the specified database. Each comparison is scored and the top scores are listed in rank order.