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The original FASTA/Pearson format is described in the documentation for the FASTA suite of programs. It can be downloaded with any free distribution of FASTA (see fasta20.doc, fastaVN.doc, or fastaVN.me—where VN is the Version Number).
FASTA is a DNA and protein sequence alignment software package first described by David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson in 1985. [1] Its legacy is the FASTA format which is now ubiquitous in bioinformatics .
Sequence alignments can be stored in a wide variety of text-based file formats, many of which were originally developed in conjunction with a specific alignment program or implementation. Most web-based tools allow a limited number of input and output formats, such as FASTA format and GenBank format and the output is not easily editable.
FASTQ format is a text-based format for storing both a biological sequence (usually nucleotide sequence) and its corresponding quality scores. Both the sequence letter and quality score are each encoded with a single ASCII character for brevity.
Biological sequence formats are a collection of file formats that are used in the biomedical sciences. There are a number of these. There are a number of these. Most of these formats were developed for use in particular programmes and have subsequently been reused by other programmes.
Format support License Can run on Browser Operating Platforms Link Alan No No No Allows sequence alignments to be viewed quickly and directly in a linux terminal without X-forwarding FASTA, Clustal: Free, GPL 3 No Linux Terminal Official website: Ale (emacs plugin) No Yes No No GenBank, EMBL, FASTA, PHYLIP: Free, GPL: No GNU Emacs Official website
FASTA provides a similar set of programs for comparing proteins to protein and DNA databases, DNA to DNA and protein databases, and includes additional programs for working with unordered short peptides and DNA sequences. In addition, the FASTA package provides SSEARCH, a vectorized implementation of the rigorous Smith-Waterman algorithm. FASTA ...
Biopython can read and write to a number of common sequence formats, including FASTA, FASTQ, GenBank, Clustal, PHYLIP and NEXUS. When reading files, descriptive information in the file is used to populate the members of Biopython classes, such as SeqRecord. This allows records of one file format to be converted into others.