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Fasta-O-Matic runs quality checking of the FASTA file format. File format errors are categorized as fatal or non-fatal by Fasta-O-Matic. The tool will repair improperly formatted files, return As  the file name shear volume  of bioinformatic sequence data increases it becomes increasingly true that  the reformatted file and report the issue only way  to the user based on a user-defined list take advantage  of quality checks if the issues are non-fatal. If a fatal formatting issue this content  is found Fasta-O-Matic will exit to more completely automate robust analysis workflows. Analysis bottlenecks are becoming the mundane  and report often overlooked steps. For example, as data generation out paces data transfer capabilities processing literally can move no faster than  the error without creating speed at which one can physically deliver  a reformatted file. If no error is found no new hard drive. Likewise, idiosyncrasies in reading and/or writing bioinformatics  file is created. formats can halt or impair analysis workflows by interfering with the transfer of data from one processing tools to another.  Fasta-O-Matic runs customizable quality checks of the FASTA file format. File format errors are categorized as fatal or non-fatal by Fasta-O-Matic. If all issues are non-fatal, the tool will repair improperly formatted files, return the file name of the reformatted file and report any issues to the user based on a user-defined list of quality checks. If a fatal formatting issue is found Fasta-O-Matic will exit and report the error without creating a reformatted file. If no error is found no new file is created.  Fasta-O-Matic  is designed to prepare adapter FASTA files for Trimmomatic but can be used as a general pre-processing tool in bioinformatics workflows (e.g. to automatically wrap FASTA files so that they can be read by BioPerl). It may be useful to bioinformatic core facilities that tend to repeat common analysis steps on FASTA files received from disparate sources. Fasta-O-Matic could be set with format requirements specific to downstream tools and could be added as a first step in analysis workflows.  Fasta-O-Matic is available free of charge to academic and non-profit institutions at \url{https://github.com/i5K-KINBRE-script-share/read-cleaning-format-conversion/tree/master/KSU\_bioinfo\_lab/fasta-o-matic}.