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DNA Sequencing
DNA Sequencing
Generally end up with a lot of individual fragments to "put back together"
What do these fragments look like?
What do these fragments look like?
- The simplest standard file format in bioinformatics is the FASTA file -- this is the format we will be working with
- BUT MANY FILE FORMATS EXIST -- so knowing about the existence of this site could someday come in handy
- A sequence in FASTA format begins with a single-line description, followed by lines of sequence data.
- The description line (defline) is distinguished from the sequence data by a greater-than (">") symbol at the beginning (this can be a helpful marker when doing data processing).
- It is recommended that all lines of text be shorter than 80 characters in length.
- Blank lines are not allowed in the middle of FASTA input
- An example sequence in FASTA format is:
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