Editing FASTA format (section)

===Filename extension===
There is no standard [[filename extension]] for a text file containing FASTA formatted sequences. The table below shows each extension and its respective meaning.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border:solid 1px black;"
! Extension
! Meaning
! Notes
|-
|fasta, fas, fa<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jalview.org/help/html/io/fileformats.html |title=Alignment Fileformats |date=22 May 2019 |access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
| generic FASTA
| Any generic FASTA file
|-
|fna
|FASTA nucleic acid
|Used generically to specify nucleic acids
|-
|ffn
|FASTA nucleotide of gene regions
|Contains coding regions for a genome
|-
|faa
|FASTA amino acid
|Contains amino acid sequences
|-
|mpfa
|FASTA amino acids
|Contains multiple protein sequences
|-
|frn
|FASTA [[non-coding RNA]]
|Contains non-coding RNA regions for a genome, e.g. tRNA, rRNA
|}