diff --git a/lib/galaxy/config/sample/datatypes_conf.xml.sample b/lib/galaxy/config/sample/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
index 2e3039c0dfdc..c3008808618f 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/config/sample/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
+++ b/lib/galaxy/config/sample/datatypes_conf.xml.sample
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
     <datatype extension="data_manager_json" type="galaxy.datatypes.text:DataManagerJson" mimetype="application/json" subclass="true" display_in_upload="false"/>
     <datatype extension="dbn" type="galaxy.datatypes.sequence:DotBracket" display_in_upload="true" description="Dot-Bracket format is a text-based format for storing both an RNA sequence and its corresponding 2D structure." description_url="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Learn/Datatypes#Dbn"/>
     <datatype extension="fai" type="galaxy.datatypes.tabular:Tabular" display_in_upload="true" subclass="true" description="A Fasta Index File is a text file consisting of lines each with five TAB-delimited columns : Name, Length, offset, linebases, Linewidth" description_url="http://www.htslib.org/doc/faidx.html"/>
-    <datatype extension="fasta" auto_compressed_types="gz" type="galaxy.datatypes.sequence:Fasta" display_in_upload="true" 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 ('&gt;') symbol in the first column. All lines should be shorter than 80 characters." description_url="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Learn/Datatypes#Fasta">
+    <datatype extension="fasta" auto_compressed_types="gz,bz2" type="galaxy.datatypes.sequence:Fasta" display_in_upload="true" 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 ('&gt;') symbol in the first column. All lines should be shorter than 80 characters." description_url="https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Learn/Datatypes#Fasta">
       <infer_from suffix="fa" />
       <converter file="fasta_to_tabular_converter.xml" target_datatype="tabular"/>
       <converter file="fasta_to_bowtie_base_index_converter.xml" target_datatype="bowtie_base_index"/>