---
name: "extractalign"
section: "1e"
platform: "linux"
package: "emboss"
version: "6.6.0+dfsg-15"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/extractalign"
---

# extractalign(1e)

Extract regions from a sequence alignment

## NAME

extractalign - Extract regions from a sequence alignment

## SYNOPSIS

**extractalign** **-sequence** *seqset* **-regions** *range* **-outseq** *seqoutall*

**extractalign** **-help**

## DESCRIPTION

**extractalign** is a command line program from EMBOSS (“the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite”). It is part of the "Alignment,Data retrieval:Sequence data,Edit" command group(s).

## OPTIONS

### Input section

- **-sequence** *seqset*

  ### Required section

- **-regions** *range*

  Regions to extract. A set of regions is specified by a set of pairs of positions. The positions are integers. They are separated by any non-digit, non-alpha character. Examples of region specifications are: 24-45, 56-78 1:45, 67=99;765..888 1,5,8,10,23,45,57,99 Default value: $(sequence.begin)-$(sequence.end)

### Output section

- **-outseq** *seqoutall*

  ## BUGS

Bugs can be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking system (http://bugs.debian.org/emboss), or directly to the EMBOSS developers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group\_id=93650&atid=605031).

## SEE ALSO

extractalign is fully documented via the **tfm**(1) system.

## AUTHOR

**Debian Med Packaging Team** \<debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org\>

Wrote the script used to autogenerate this manual page.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was autogenerated from an Ajax Control Definition of the EMBOSS package. It can be redistributed under the same terms as EMBOSS itself.