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FASTA

Definition
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FASTA is a plain-text sequence format where each record starts with a header line beginning with `>` followed by one or more lines of nucleotide or amino-acid sequence.

Topics
Bioinformatics Formats
URL
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/fastaformat
Related
Genome Assembly Genome Coordinate System Variant

Why it matters in GWAS

GWAS and post-GWAS pipelines rely on FASTA reference sequences for alignment, variant calling, annotation, and coordinate-consistent interpretation across tools.

Example usage

"Reads were aligned to the GRCh38 FASTA reference before variant calling and association analysis."

Genome Assembly Genome Coordinate System Variant
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Pearson WR, Lipman DJ. (1988). Improved tools for biological sequence comparison. PNAS. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.85.8.2444
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