Talk:FASTA format

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[edit] Merge with Fasta Sequence?

  1. support- Yeah, the article "Fasta Sequence" should just be merged into the article "FASTA format". A FASTA sequence isn't a good term anyway!
Merged. Changed FASTA sequence for a redirect. I tried to keep most of the material so that no previous work is lost. Anybody who cares, feel free to cut. Miguel Andrade 04:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
What does FASTA stand for???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.157.135.130 (talk • contribs) 06:15, 12 December 2006
Snipped from FASTA page : "FASTA is pronounced 'FAST-Aye', and stands for 'FAST-All', because it works with any alphabet, an extension of 'FAST-P' (protein) and 'FAST-N' (nucleotide) alignment." Paul Cotney 13:30, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments in a FASTA record

I removed most of the useless and distracting references to comments in the FASTA file because no on supports them and haven't for over 15 years. For details, see my research -- Andrew Dalke

Not true, comments starting with a semi-colon are supported for instance by the function read.fasta in the seqinR package and by the function readFASTA in the Biostrings package. 90.42.8.116 (talk)

[edit] Copyright?

Looks like the text under "Format" is copied from the NCBI website. Either that, or the NCBI copied from here. Does this need to be changed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.193.214.112 (talk) 22:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

The NCBI website, however, is a US Federal Government website...and, as it is the author of the appropriate text, it is public domain. However, it should be cited as being such. --AEMoreira042281 15:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HUPO-PSI Format to another page

I suggest moving this addition on HUPO-PSI Format to another page, as it confuses the basic article, and opens the door to n other detailed sequence record proposals.

This is very worthy as a new sequence format proposal, but it is not Fasta format. HUPO-PSI is one of several variants that have been proposed or built to bring documentation and record structure back into Fasta (which was designed for its simplicity). It would be worth referring to other such formats in this article. NCBI's defline format the current most common variant of Fasta. Add why FastA isn't the solution to documented, structured sequence records. Dongilbert (talk) 02:47, 18 February 2008 (UTC)