Alignment length and query sequence length units

[iwilkie]

I just wanted to ask about the units of "alignment length" and "query sequence length" from the diamond blastx tabular output.

I've tried looking into the manual, but haven't seen anything which specifies what the units are (nucleotides or amino acids) or which specifies if the two values have the same unit.

Thank you in advance!

[bbuchfink]

Alignment length is in amino acids, query length is in amino acids in blastp mode and in bases in blastx mode.

[iwilkie]

Thank you so much, I appreciate the quick reply!