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14 <p><strong>Alignment Fileformats</strong>
15 <p>Jalview understands a wide range of sequence alignment formats. In
16 order to determine which format has been used for an alignment,
17 jalview tries to detect some text or formatting unique to one of the formats:
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20 <tr><td width="17%">Format</td>
21 <td width="60%">Unique File Feature</td>
22 <td width="23%">File Extension</td>
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24 <td width="17%">FASTA</td>
25 <td width="60%">&gt;SequenceName<br>
26 THISISASEQENCE<br></td>
27 <td width="23%">.fa, .fasta</td>
28 </tr><tr><td width="17%">MSF</td>
29 <td width="60%">!! AA_MULTIPLE_ALIGNMENT 1.0<br>
30 <em>..</em><br>
31 //<br></td>
32 <td width="23%">.msf</td>
33 </tr><tr><td width="17%">CLUSTALW</td>
34 <td width="60%">CLUSTAL</td>
35 <td width="23%">.aln</td>
36 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PILEUP</td>
37 <td width="60%">PileUp</td>
38 <td width="23%"></td>
39 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PIR</td>
40 <td width="60%">&gt;P1;</td>
41 <td width="23%">.pir</td>
42 </tr><tr><td width="17%">BLC</td>
43 <td width="60%">&gt;Seq1<br>
44 &gt;Seq2</td>
45 <td width="23%">.blc</td>
46 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PFAM</td>
47 <td width="60%">SequenceName THISISASEQENCE</td>
48 <td width="23%">.pfam</td>
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51 <p>The file extensions are used to associate jalview alignment icons
52 with alignment files: <img src="file.png" width=12 height=12 >
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