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21 <title>Alignment Fileformats</title>
22 <style type="text/css">
32 <p><strong>Alignment Fileformats</strong>
33 <p>Jalview understands a wide range of sequence alignment formats. In
34 order to determine which format has been used for an alignment,
35 jalview tries to detect some text or formatting unique to one of the formats:
37 <table width="100%" border="1">
38 <tr><td width="17%">Format</td>
39 <td width="60%">Unique File Feature</td>
40 <td width="23%">File Extension</td>
42 <td width="17%">FASTA</td>
43 <td width="60%">>SequenceName<br>
44 THISISASEQENCE<br></td>
45 <td width="23%">.fa, .fasta</td>
46 </tr><tr><td width="17%">MSF</td>
47 <td width="60%">!! AA_MULTIPLE_ALIGNMENT 1.0<br>
50 <td width="23%">.msf</td>
51 </tr><tr><td width="17%">CLUSTALW</td>
52 <td width="60%">CLUSTAL</td>
53 <td width="23%">.aln</td>
54 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PILEUP</td>
55 <td width="60%">PileUp</td>
57 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PIR</td>
58 <td width="60%">>P1;</td>
59 <td width="23%">.pir</td>
60 </tr><tr><td width="17%">BLC</td>
61 <td width="60%">>Seq1<br>
63 <td width="23%">.blc</td>
64 </tr><tr><td width="17%">PFAM</td>
65 <td width="60%">SequenceName THISISASEQENCE</td>
66 <td width="23%">.pfam</td>
68 <td width="17%">Stockholm</td>
69 <td width="60%"># STOCKHOLM VersionNumber<br>
70 <em>...</em><br>//</td>
71 <td width="23%">.stk, .sto</td>
74 <p>The file extensions are used to associate jalview alignment icons
75 with alignment files: <img src="file.png" width=12 height=12 >