The Consensus Align tab (Figure 1‑65) is useful when you need to see the individual reads comprised in a consensus (from the Global Align tab), to evaluate the variations that the software has considered “noise”. This removal of “noise” is what allows the Global Align tab to simplify the display of the Project’s data by collapsing groups of similar reads into consensi, when its Read Type control is set to “Consensus” (see section 1.6.4.2). The Consensus Align tab, thus, is very similar to the Global Align tab, except that it displays the multi-alignment of the individual reads that comprised a Global Align tab consensus.