FASTA

FASTA
Developer(s)
Stable release
36
Repository
Operating system
TypeBioinformatics
Licenseapache2.0
Website

FASTA is a DNA and protein sequence alignment software package first described by David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson in 1985.[1] Its legacy is the FASTA format which is now ubiquitous in bioinformatics.

  1. ^ Lipman, DJ; Pearson, WR (1985). "Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches". Science. 227 (4693): 1435–41. Bibcode:1985Sci...227.1435L. doi:10.1126/science.2983426. PMID 2983426. Closed access icon

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