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Review
. 2007 Jan:Appendix 1:Appendix 1B.
doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bia01bs16.

Common file formats

Shonda A Leonard  1 , Timothy G Littlejohn, Andreas D Baxevanis
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Review

Common file formats

Shonda A Leonard et al. Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2007 Jan.

Abstract

This appendix discusses a few of the file formats frequently encountered in bioinformatics. Specifically, it reviews the rules for generating FASTA files and provides guidance for interpreting NCBI descriptor lines, commonly found in FASTA files. In addition, it reviews the construction of GenBank, Phylip, MSF and Nexus files.

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