GC content refers to the percent of nucleuic acids in your sequence that is either Guanine or Cytosine. Deteriming the GC content of your file has applications from determing what species your sequence is from to identifying coding regions in a genome.
- The (fasta) version removes every thing on the same line as the > symbol, remember to only include one sequence in the fasta file.
- The (txt) versions asumes the file only contains the sequences being analyzed. Meaning names and other characters have been removed.