Converting .txt into .fasta

Question

[trejomarco6]

I'm new to biopython and I'm just having trouble converting a .txt file into a .fasta file using biopython.

[ATpoint]

You should add a snippet of your file so users can see how it looks and which code is necessary to convert it.

Answer 1

[raavi21198]

If possible try converting this .txt file to .fasta file using UNIX command line Use awk command
eg. awk '{ print ">"NR"\n"$0 }' yourfile.txt > yourfasta.fas

check this link for more help https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_convert_a_Text_File_to_a_Fasta_Format_File

You may try this or other similar methods in UNIX command line (since you r new to biopython)

Answer 2

[Mensur Dlakic]

FASTA files are plain text files - they simply don't end in .txt for reasons of naming convention. It is likely that renaming a file or copying it into something that ends in .fas would do the trick.

If your text file is in some sequence format other than FASTA - it could be, because most of them are plain text files as well - it would help if you show the first few lines of the file and tell us what is it that you tried in BioPython that didn't work.