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General feature format

File format for genomic features

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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In bioinformatics, the general feature format is a file format used for describing genes and other features of DNA, RNA and protein sequences.

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The public source identifies “General feature format” as file format for genomic features. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around General, feature and format.

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This entry incorporates text from “General feature format” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.