converion of gtf file into fasta

Question

[Bioiris]

Hi all,

I am a beginner

I have a file and I need to convert the format from .gtf to .fa (fasta) is there any tools that can do that?

thank you in advance

[GouthamAtla]

gffread Read the section "Extracting transcript sequences"

[WouterDeCoster]

Good one, I have edited and clarified my answer.

[Bioiris]

Ok!

thank you very much

Answer 1

[WouterDeCoster]

That's an unlikely conversion, and not possible too. Are you sure you need that? If you could download the gtf, you can most likely download the fasta file too.

EDIT: Clarification: a gtf on its own cannot be converted to a fasta file. However, see the comment from Goutham Atla on how to extract the features from a gtf based on a genome fasta file from the same annotation-build, resulting in fasta sequences corresponding to the gtf file.

[Brian Bushnell]

Technically, by adding a ">" to the beginning of each line, you would transform a gtf file into a valid fasta file... :)