diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7353b9286cce1d8ec53a92491f9150b184de9135
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+target/
+.idea
+local-sequence-alignment.iml