what is FASTA format?

Answer Posted / neeraj verma

FASTA is a DNA and protein sequence alignment software
package first described (as FASTP)
The FASTA file format used as input for this software is now
largely used by other sequence database search tools (such
as BLAST) and sequence alignment programs (Clustal,
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