FASTA format
| 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 |
| Initial release | 1985 |
| Type of format | Bioinformatics |
| Extended from | ASCII for FASTA |
| Extended to | FASTQ format |
| 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.
The simplicity of FASTA format makes it easy to manipulate and parse sequences using text-processing tools and scripting languages.