File Extension FSA

File type: DNA and Protein Sequence Alignment

Notes about the FSA file extension:

Errors in your registry are one of the common causes for incorrect file associations on your windows system. It is highly recommended that you check your registry for file association errors (will also check for any other registry errors).

The FSA file type is primarily associated with 'FASTA Format'. FASTA is a DNA and Protein sequence alignment software package first described (as FASTP) by David J. Lipman and William R. Pearson in 1985 in the article Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches. The original FASTP program was designed for protein sequence similarity searching. FASTA format files often have file extensions like .fa, .mpfa, .fna, .fsa, .fas or .fasta.

Detailed information for file extension FSA:

Primary association: FASTA Format
Identifying characters Hex: 3E , ASCII:
Related links: Wikipedia FASTA Page, Wikipedia FASTA Format Page

Other applications associated with file type FSA:

  • ABIF (Applied Biosystems Inc. Format) by Applied BiosystemsThe Applied Biosystems business is focused on basic research, commercial research (pharmaceutical and biotechnology) and standardized testing, including forensic human identification, paternity testing and food testing. The identifying characters used for this association are - Hex: 41 42 49 46 00 65 74 64 69 72 , ASCII: ABIF.etdir
File Identifier - TrID
'Identifying characters' used on FILExt.com are
provided by Marco Pontello from his TrID database



Technical data

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Program Name and MIME Type Info for File Extension .FSA

FILExt has been given permission to display a Program Name/MIME type database collected by Anthony R. Nemmer. Some of this data has already been included into the main FILExt database. Those entries which have not yet been incorporated are displayed below.
Program Name Mime Type application/filemaker

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