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FASTA is a DNA and protein sequence alignment software package first described by David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson in 1985. Its legacy is the FASTA format which is now ubiquitous in bioinformatics.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FASTA | Developers | William R. Pearson | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Developers | David J. Lipman | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | License | apache2.0 | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Operating system | UNIX | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Operating system | Linux | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Operating system | Mac | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Operating system | MS-Windows | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Repository | github.com/wrpearson/fasta36 | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Stable release | 36 | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Type | Bioinformatics | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Website | fasta.bioch.virginia.edu | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | Website | www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/sss/fasta | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA | is a | DNA and protein sequence alignment software package first described by David J | 0.90 | text |
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