Brianna Bibel on Instagram: "“FASTA” is a file format used for protein and nucleic acid sequences. And it’s really no big deal (in the sense that it’s super easy to use and understand–it is a big deal importance-wise!). All it is is a plain text file (or a FASTA-style block of text you copy and paste) that has 1. A header/identifying line that starts with a carat (“>”) and then provides information about the following sequence (accession codes for various databases, gene and/or protein name, spe