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Latest revision as of 15:37, 15 November 2011
A fasta file is simply a text file in the following format:
>SequenceName
atcg
where atcg=the DNA or amino acid sequence in question. The extension doesn't technically matter usually, but is often .fas .fasta or .fna by convention.
For more detail, see WikiPedia page [1]
