Common File Formats

Curr Protoc Bioinformatics. 2014 Mar 21:45:A.1B.1-18. doi: 10.1002/0471250953.bia01bs45.

Abstract

An overview of the many file formats commonly used in bioinformatics and genome sequence analysis is presented, including various data file formats, alignment file formats, and annotation file formats. Example workflows illustrate how some of the different file types are typically used.

Keywords: bioinformatics; file formats; genomics.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Base Sequence
  • Computational Biology*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Programming Languages*
  • Sequence Alignment