April 25, 2005 - Using FASTA-format Files

My sequence file is in fasta format. How can I get GCG programs to read it?

If your fasta-format sequence file:

• contains only one sequence per file
• is formatted so that no lines are longer than 511 characters

You can use it as-is by adding -fasta to the command-line. For example, if you want to translate a DNA sequence named orf1.fa, you would type the following:

% translate orf1.fa -fasta