FASTA

DNA and protein sequence alignment software package
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FASTA

Summary

FASTA is a free software[1]. FASTA ranks in the top 8% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • FASTA's instance of is recorded as free software[3].
  • FASTA's developer is recorded as William R. Pearson[4].
  • FASTA's developer is recorded as David J. Lipman[5].
  • FASTA's copyright license is recorded as Apache Software License 2.0[6].
  • FASTA's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[7].
  • FASTA's operating system is recorded as Unix-like operating system[8].
  • FASTA's operating system is recorded as Linux[9].
  • FASTA's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[10].
  • FASTA's operating system is recorded as macOS[11].
  • FASTA's software version identifier is recorded as 36.3.8g[12].
  • FASTA's software version identifier is recorded as 36.3.8[13].
  • FASTA's software version identifier is recorded as 36.3.8d[14].
  • FASTA's has use is recorded as bioinformatics[15].
  • FASTA's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03yxj1[16].
  • FASTA's source code repository URL is recorded as https://github.com/wrpearson/fasta36[17].
  • FASTA's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00128323n[18].
  • FASTA's Debian stable package is recorded as fasta3[19].
  • FASTA's Gentoo package is recorded as sci-biology/fasta[20].
  • FASTA's AUR package is recorded as fasta[21].
  • FASTA's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[22].
  • FASTA's Repology project name is recorded as fasta[23].
  • FASTA's FreeBSD port is recorded as biology/fasta3[24].
  • FASTA's FreeBSD port is recorded as biology/fasta[25].

Why It Matters

FASTA ranks in the top 8% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (39 views/month).[2] FASTA has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . faculty.virginia.edu. faculty.virginia.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). FASTA. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/fasta
MLA “FASTA.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/fasta.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fasta_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{FASTA}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fasta}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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