---
name: "fastaoverlap"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "exonerate"
version: "2.4.0-5+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fastaoverlap"
---

# fastaoverlap(1)

suite for investigating DNA and RNA sequence similarities

## NAME

exonerate - suite for investigating DNA and RNA sequence similarities

## SYNOPSIS

**exonerate-client** \[*--help*\]\
 **exonerate-server** \[*--help*\]\
 **fasta2esd** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaannotatecdna** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastachecksum** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaclean** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaclip** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastacomposition** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastadiff** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaexplode** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastafetch** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastahardmask** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaindex** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastalength** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastanrdb** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaoverlap** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastareformat** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastaremove** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastarevcomp** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastasoftmask** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastasort** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastasplit** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastasubseq** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastatranslate** \[*--help*\]\
 **fastavalidcds** \[*--help*\]\

## DESCRIPTION

These programs are not described by the upstream author, however, some information is available via the --help and -h arguments for all these programs. Whoever is using any of these programs in routine, is requested to provide a seed of a respective man page to the upstream author.

## OPTIONS

- **-h,**

  **--help** Show summary of options.

- **-v, --version**

  Show version of program.

## SEE ALSO

**http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/**\
 The author of this package provides a beginner ( *http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/beginner.html* ) and and avanced  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/advanced.html ) tutorial on his web pages.

## AUTHOR

exonerate was written by Guy Slater \<guy@ebi.ac.uk\>.

This manual page was written by Steffen Moeller for the Debian project (but may be used by others).