fastatools

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.