Split multifasta file using awk command
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Hi,

I have a FASTA file and need to split the file into multiple FASTAs, one gene per file. Refer to the post Splitting A Fasta File, I have tried below

awk -F "|" '/^>/ {close(F) ; F = $1".fasta"} {print >> F}' yourfile.fa

However, every output file name contain symbol ">", for example ">my_contig_name.fasta".

May I know how to avoid to have ">" in the output file name? Thanks.

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Hi,

Actually I have tried several command from these posts, but only the above command work for me. However, this command has created ">" in the output name.

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Try changing the command to:

awk -F "|" '/^>/ {close(F); ID=$1; gsub("^>", "", ID); F=ID".fasta"} {print >> F}' yourfile.fa

If not limited to awk, you can use: seqkit split --by-id yourfile.fa.

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Thank you very much!

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Try

awk -F "|" '/^>/ {close(F) ; F = substr($1,2,length($1)-1)".fasta"} {print >> F}' yourfile.fa
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Thank you very much!

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