FASTA Format and Its Applications

Who were the creators of the FASTA software?

• James Watson and Francis Crick

• David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson

• Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins

• Linus Pauling and Robert Corey

What does the FASTA format use to represent nucleotide and peptide sequences?

• Numerical codes

• Single-letter codes

• Double-letter codes

• Color codes

In a FASTA file, how is the description line distinguished from the sequence data?

• By a period at the end

• By a hashtag at the start

• By a greater than symbol at the beginning

• By a semicolon at the end

Which letters are acceptable in amino acid sequences to represent a gap of ambiguous length?

• A single hyphen or dash

• A double hyphen

• A double underscore

• A single asterisk

How should numerical digits in a query sequence be handled before submission?

• They should be converted to zeros

• They should be highlighted

• They should be converted to letters or removed

• They should be left as is