# Bioinformatics File Formats [5 genomics file formats you must know - OMGenomics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrVpn0vpIYU) [Computational Biology Core - File Formats Tutorial](https://bioinformatics.uconn.edu/resources-and-events/tutorials-2/file-formats-tutorial/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic_acid_notation#IUPAC_notation | Name | Identifiers | Description | | --------- | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **FASTA** | *.fa, .fasta, .fsa, .faa* | A reference file containing sequences of either nucleotides of amino acids | | **FASTQ** | *.fastq, .fq* | | | | | | | | | | ## Basic Sequence Files **FASTA** *(.fa, .fasta, .fsa, .faa)* A reference file containing sequences of either nucleotides of amino acids - Lines starting with '>' are identifiers and provide info about the sequence - **FASTQ** Hold reads from sequencing machines along with a quality score - aaa ![[Pasted image 20240915220514.png]] ## Sequence Alignment **Sequence Alignment/Map (`.sam`)** ## Genomic Annotations