A sequence in FASTA format begins with a single-line description, followed by lines of sequence data. The description line is distinguished from the sequence data by a greater-than (">") symbol in the first column. 
Examples of sequence in FASTA format are:

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>P02418|SwissProt|Cytoplasmic|50S ribosomal protein L9
MQVILLDKVANLGSLGDQVNVKAGYARNFLVPQGKAVPATKKNIEFFEAR
RAELEAKLAEVLAAANARAEKINALETVTIASKAGDEGKLFGSIGTRDIA
DAVTAAGVEVAKSEVRLPNGVLRTTGEHEVSFQVHSEVFAKVIVNVVAE

>P05082|SwissProt|Cytoplasmic|Adenylate kinase (ATP-AMP transphosphorylase)
MRIILLGAPGAGKGTQAQFIMEKYGIPQISTGDMLRAAVKSGSELGKQAK
DIMDAGKLVTDELVIALVKERIAQEDCRNGFLLDGFPRTIPQADAMKEAG
INVDYVLEFDVPDELIVDRIVGRRVHAPSGRVYHVKFNPPKVEGKDDVTG
EELTTRKDDQEETVRKRLVEYHQMTAPLIGYYSKEAEAGNTKYAKVDGTK
PVAEVRADLEKILG
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