View source for FASTA and FASTQ

== File extensions ==
A number of extensions are used, and they are not always completely standardized.

* .fasta, .fas, .fa, .seq, .fsa: Generic FASTA
* .fna: FASTA nucleic acids
* .ffn: FASTA nucleotide coding regions for a genome
* .faa 	FASTA amino acids
* .mpfa: FASTA amino acides in multiple proteins
* .frn: FASTA non-coding RNA
* .fastq, .fq: FASTQ

Files may also be distributed in compressed forms, adding second extensions such as .fastq.gz.