code: def interleaveblastresults(query, subject):
          
          # Initialise strings to hold the matches, and the final BLAST-formatted string
          matchstring = ''
          blaststring = ''
          # Iterate through the query
          for i, bp in enumerate(query):
              # If the current base in the query is identical to the corresponding base in the reference, append a '|'
              # to the match string, otherwise, append a ' '
              if bp == subject[i]:
                  matchstring += '|'
              else:
                  matchstring += ' '
          # Set a variable to store the progress through the sequence
          prev = 0
          # Iterate through the query, from start to finish in steps of 60 bp
          for j in range(0, len(query), 60):
              # BLAST results string. The components are: current position (padded to four characters), 'OLC', query
              # sequence, \n, matches, \n, 'ref', subject sequence. Repeated until all the sequence data are present.
              """
              0000 OLC ATGAAGAAGATATTTGTAGCGGCTTTATTTGCTTTTGTTTCTGTTAATGCAATGGCAGCT
                       ||||||||||| ||| | |||| ||||||||| || ||||||||||||||||||||||||
                   ref ATGAAGAAGATGTTTATGGCGGTTTTATTTGCATTAGTTTCTGTTAATGCAATGGCAGCT
              0060 OLC GATTGTGCAAAAGGTAAAATTGAGTTCTCTAAGTATAATGAGAATGATACATTCACAGTA
                       ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
                   ref GATTGTGCAAAAGGTAAAATTGAGTTCTCTAAGTATAATGAGAATGATACATTCACAGTA
              """
              blaststring += '{} OLC {}\n         {}\n     ref {}\n' \
                  .format('{:04d}'.format(j), query[prev:j + 60], matchstring[prev:j + 60], subject[prev:j + 60])
              # Update the progress variable
              prev = j + 60
          # Return the properly formatted string
          return blaststring
docs: Creates an interleaved string that resembles BLAST sequence comparisons
          :param query: Query sequence
          :param subject: Subject sequence
          :return: Properly formatted BLAST-like sequence comparison