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. 2014 Apr 11;7:4. doi: 10.1186/1756-0381-7-4

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Example of FASTA format. The FASTA format is composed of two main parts: (i) the heading line of each sequence, starting with the character “>”, followed by the “specimen ID” and the “species name field” (dived by a vertical bar “|” ) and (ii) the nucleotide sequences (a string of A, C, G, T characters).