Specific File Formats

File formatFile extensionReadWriteComment
ABIF*.ab1, *.abi, *.abif+-A chromatogram file format.
See also: Chromatogram Viewer
ACE*.ace+-A file format for storing data about genomic contigs.
See also: Alignment Editor
APR*.apr+-Vector NTI / AlignX Alignment format.
See also: Alignment Editor
Bairoch*.bairoch++A file format to store enzymes.
See also: Restriction Analysis
BAM*.bam+-Binary compressed SAM format.
See also: Assembly Browser
ClustalW*.aln++A multiple sequence alignments (MSA) file format.
See also: Alignment Editor
EBWT*.ebwt++A Bowtie prebuilt index file.
See also: Bowtie
EMBL*.em, *.emb, *.embl+-A rich format for storing sequences and their annotations.
See also: Sequence View
FASTA*.fa, *.mpfa, *.fna, *.fsa, *.fas, *.fasta, *.sef *.seqs++One of the oldest and simplest sequence file formats.
See also: Sequence View
FASTQ*.fastq++A file format used to store a sequence and its corresponding quality scores.
It was originally developed at the “Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute”.
See also: Sequence View
Genbank*.gb, *.gbk, *.gen, *.genbank++A rich format for storing sequences and associated annotations.
See also: Sequence View
GFF*.gff++The Gene Finding Format (GFF) is used to store features and annotations.
See also: Sequence View
HMM*.hmm++A file format to store HMM profiles.
See also: HMM2, HMM3
MMDB*.prt+-ASN.1 format used by the Molecular Modeling Database (MMDB).
See also: 3D Structure Viewer
MSF*.msf++A multiple sequence alignments file format.
See also: Alignment Editor
Mega*.meg, *.meg.gz+A multiple sequence alignments file format.
See also: Alignment Editor
Newick*.nwk, *.newick++A tree file format.
See also: Building Phylogenetic Tree, Phylogenetic Tree Viewer
Nexus*.nex *.nxs++A multiple alignment and phylogenetic trees file format.
See also: Alignment Editor, Building Phylogenetic Tree, Phylogenetic Tree Viewer
PDB*.pdb+-The Protein Data Bank (PDB) format allows the viewing of the 3D structure of sequences.
See also: 3D Structure Viewer
pDRAW32*.pdw+-A sequence file format used by pDRAW32 software.
See also: Sequence View
PFM*.pfm++A file format for a position frequency matrix.
See also: Weight Matrix
Phylip*.phy++A multiple alignment file format.
See also: Alignment Editor
PWM*.pwm++A file format for a position weight matrix.
See also: Weight Matrix
Raw*.seq++A raw sequence format.
See also: Sequence View
SAM*.sam++The Sequence Alignment/Map (SAM) format is a generic alignment format for storing read alignments against reference sequences.
See also: Assembly Browser, Bowtie, UGENE Genome Aligner
SCF*.scf+-Standard Chromatogram Format.
See also: Chromatogram Viewer
SITECON*.sitecon+-A file format to store TFBS profiles.
See also: SITECON
Stockholm*.sto++A multiple sequence alignments file format.
See also: Alignment Editor
Swiss-Prot*.txt *.sw+-An annotated protein sequence format of the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot database.
See also: Sequence View
Vector NTI Sequence*.gb *.gp++A rich format for storing sequences and associated annotations, produced by Vector NTI software.
See also: Sequence View
VCF*.vcf++The VCF specifies the format of a text file used for storing gene sequence variations.
See also: Assembly Browser