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output files for search and clustering commands

 See also
  -maxhits option
 
-top_hits_only option
  -output_no_hits option
 
Accept options
  Weak hits

Option   Description
alnout filename   Human-readable alignments.
userout filename   Tab-separated text file, fields are specified by -userfields.
uc filename   Tab-separated text file with records for hits and clusters.
fastapairs filename   FASTA file. Each pair of sequences is a hit with the query first then the target, with gaps inserted to align them.
centroids filename   FASTA file for cluster centroid sequences.
consout filename   FASTA file for cluster consensus sequences. Note that this option may use a substantial amount of memory.
blast6out filename   Tab-separated text file compatible with the NCBI BLAST m8 and outfmt 6 formats.
-matched filename   FASTA file containing query sequences that matched the database. Supported by v6.0.229 and later.
-notmatched filename   FASTA file containing query sequences that did not match the database. Supported by v6.0.229 and later.
-dbmatched filename   FASTA file containing database sequences matched to at least one query sequence. Supported by v6.0.229 and later. If -sizeout is specified, the number of queries that matched this sequence is written as a size annotation.
-dbnotmatched filename   FASTA file containing database sequences that were not matched to a query sequence. Supported by v6.0.229 and later.
-msaout filename   FASTA file containing a multiple alignment of each cluster. Supported by v6.0.307 and later. Note that this option may use a substantial amount of memory.
-clusters prefix   Creates one FASTA file for each cluster. The filename is constructed by appending the cluster number 0, 1, 2... to prefix. Since the number of clusters may be large, it is suggested to use a directory name in the prefix, e.g. -clusters clusterdir/cluster_. You must create the directory before running usearch. Note that this option may use a substantial amount of memory.