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