FASTA format description

A sequence in FASTA format consists of a single-line description, followed by lines of sequence data. The first character of the description line is a greater-than (">") symbol in the first column. All lines should be shorter than 80 charcters. An example sequence in FASTA format is:

>Name of the sequence
VTSNVVLVSGEGERFTVDKKIAERSLLLKNYLNDMHDSNLQNNSDSESDSDSETNHKSKD
NNNGDDDDEDDDEIVMPVPNVRSSVLQKVIEWAEHHRDSNFPDEDDDDSRKSAPVDSWDR
EFLKVDQEMLYEIILAANYLNIKPLLDAGCKVVAEMIRGRSPEEIRRTFNIVNDFTPEEE
AAIRRENEWAEDR