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for questions related to whole genome analyses. For questions related to individual genes, use tag gene instead. Questions specific to format (like fasta) should be tagged with a format-specific tag.

The entire set of genetic information of a cell, tissue, organ, organism, etc. For eukaryotes, the genome includes the nuclear genome and the organellar genome. The genome is usually represented as a linear text or string in the FASTA format using the 4 nucleotide bases or the extended nucleotide IUPAC alphabet.