Convert .ab1/.abi sequence file to FASTA?

Question

[cossio]

What tool can I use to convert a large number of .ab1 sequence files to FASTA?

Ideally a free tool I can execute from the terminal in linux.

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

using staden

Answer 2

[Peter]

You could use Biopython's SeqIO module with a little Python to loop over all the input .ab1 files and call the function Bio.SeqIO.convert()