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Everything about FASTA format
File format for DNA or protein sequences
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. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FASTA formatA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: FASTA: Revisiting Fully Associative Memories in Computer MicroarchitectureInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Practical stress analysis in engineering designThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: SeqKit: A Cross-Platform and Ultrafast Toolkit for FASTA/Q File ManipulationCited 3,658 times
- Go sideways: BioJavaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: FASTQ formatA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
SeqKit: A Cross-Platform and Ultrafast Toolkit for FASTA/Q File Manipulation
SNP-sites: rapid efficient extraction of SNPs from multi-FASTA alignments
FaBox: an online toolbox for fasta sequences
seqphase : a web tool for interconverting phase input/output files and fasta sequence alignments
Searching protein sequence libraries: Comparison of the sensitivity and selectivity of the Smith-Waterman and FASTA algorithms
MFPPI – Multi FASTA ProtParam Interface
Finding Protein and Nucleotide Similarities with FASTA
Tools and pipelines for BioNano data: molecule assembly pipeline and FASTA super scaffolding tool
🆕 Influential since 2022
FASTA: Revisiting Fully Associative Memories in Computer Microarchitecture
SEDA: A Desktop Tool Suite for FASTA Files Processing
BigSeqKit: a parallel Big Data toolkit to process FASTA and FASTQ files at scale
RabbitFX: Efficient Framework for FASTA/Q File Parsing on Modern Multi-Core Platforms
Fasta2Structure: a user-friendly tool for converting multiple aligned FASTA files to STRUCTURE format
📚 Books worth reading
Practical stress analysis in engineering designRonald L. Huston, Ronald Huston · 2008- 📕Solid state and quantum theory for optoelectronicsMichael A. Parker · 2009
Diffusion in SolidsHelmut Mehrer · 2007
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