fastatools 1.2.0

Tools for working with fasta files.

Tools for working with fasta files.

The fastatools package was developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

• Free software

• Documentation: https://fastatools.readthedocs.io

• Source Code: https://github.com/CFSAN-Biostatistics/fastatools

• PyPI Distribution: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fastatools

Features

• Print the lengths of sequences.

• Determine if two fasta files are equivalent.

• Fix inconsistent line lengths and inconsistent lowercase.

• Generate a reverse complement of a fasta file.

• Extract a slice from a fasta file delimited by primers.

• Extract a range of positions from a fasta file.

Citing fastatools

To cite fastatools, please reference the fastatools GitHub repository:

https://github.com/CFSAN-Biostatistics/fastatools

License

See the LICENSE file included in the fastatools distribution.

History

1.2.0 (2018-12-10)

• First public release with docs and automated tests.

1.1.0 (2018-10-25)

• Add range command to extract a range of positions from a fasta file.

• Add equiv command to check for equivalent fasta files.

• Add rewrite command to fix line length and uppercase/lowercase inconsistencies.

1.0.0 (2018-09-21)

• Add length command to print the length of all the sequences in fasta files.

0.1.0 (2017-11-30)

• Project started.