| Filename extensions |
.fasta, .fas, .fa, .fna, .ffn, .faa, .mpfa, .frn |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | text/x-fasta |
| Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | no |
| Developed by | David J. Lipman William R. Pearson[1][2] |
| Initial release | 1985 |
| Type of format | Bioinformatics |
| Extended from | ASCII for FASTA |
| Extended to | FASTQ format[3] |
| Website | www |
In bioinformatics and biochemistry, the FASTA format is a text-based format for representing either nucleotide sequences or amino acid (protein) sequences, in which nucleotides or amino acids are represented using single-letter codes.
The format allows for sequence names and comments to precede the sequences. It originated from the FASTA software package and has since become a near-universal standard in bioinformatics.[4]
The simplicity of FASTA format makes it easy to manipulate and parse sequences using text-processing tools and scripting languages.
- ^ Lipman DJ, Pearson WR (March 1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science. 227 (4693): 1435–41. Bibcode:1985Sci...227.1435L. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. PMID 2983426.
- ^ Pearson WR, Lipman DJ (April 1988). "Improved tools for biological sequence comparison". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 85 (8): 2444–8. Bibcode:1988PNAS...85.2444P. doi:10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444. PMC 280013. PMID 3162770.
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fastqwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "What is FASTA format?". Zhang Lab. Archived from the original on 2022-12-04. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
