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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.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FASTA format | Developed by | David J. Lipman William R. Pearson | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Extended from | ASCII for FASTA | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Extended to | FASTQ format | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Filename extensions | .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} .fasta, .fas, .fa, .fna, .ffn, .faa, .mpfa, .frn | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Initial release | 1985 | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Internet media type | text/x-fasta | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Type of format | Bioinformatics | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Uniform Type Identifier (UTI) | no | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | Website | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/fasta.shtml | 1.00 | infobox |
| FASTA format | is a | text-based format for representing either nucleotide sequences or amino acid | 0.90 | text |
| FASTA format | related to Description line | The | 0.60 | section |
| FASTA format | related to Description line | In | 0.60 | section |
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