---
name: "extractTranscriptInfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bitseq"
version: "0.7.5+dfsg-6"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/extractTranscriptInfo"
---

# extractTranscriptInfo(1)

extracts information about transcripts from reference Fasta file

## NAME

extractTranscriptInfo.py - extracts information about transcripts from reference Fasta file

## SYNOPSIS

**extractTranscriptInfo.py** \[*options*\] *\<inputFile\> \<outputFile\>*

## DESCRIPTION

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  This program extracts information about transcripts from reference Fasta file. This is partially replaced by using SAM header, which however does not include information about transcript-gene grouping. Current version of parseAlignment extracts this information from a reference sequence file (making this script obsolete).

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Verbose output

- **-t** TYPE, **--type**=*TYPE*

  Type of file to parse: ensembl, cuff, other