In bioinformatics, FASTA format (a.k.a. Pearson format) is a text-based format for representing either nucleotide sequences or peptide sequences, in which base pairs or amino acids are represented using single-letter codes. The format also allows for sequence names and comments to precede the sequences.
The simplicity of FASTA format makes it easy to manipulate and parse sequences using text-processing tools and scripting languages like Python and Perl.
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