
BLAST storage. Storing the BLAST results. Shown is the standard BLAST output of a hit for the sequence of PAC dJ17K7 (Query). In the Subject description, emb signifies this is from the EMBL database; AL021531 is the accession number, the unique identifier for this sequence; Score is a measure of the quality of the hit; Expect is the probability of this hit occurring by chance in a database of this size; Identities is the number of matching bases; Gaps is the number of gaps introduced into the sequence (query) in order to produce the alignment. Following this is the alignment itself.











