---
name: "fastaselect"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mira-assembler"
version: "4.0.2-1+b1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fastaselect"
---

# fastaselect(1)

select fasta sequences in a file

## NAME

**fastaselect - select fasta sequences in a file**

## DESCRIPTION

This script selects fasta sequences in a file according to names given in a name file.  Given a FASTA file (and possibly a FASTA quality file) and a file with names of reads, select the sequences from the input FASTA (and quality file) and writes them to an output FASTA.

If fasta quality file is present (same basename, but with .qual appended), then also selects sequences from there.

Please check out the documentation below for more detailed information.

## SYNOPSIS

fastaselect *\<options\>*

## OPTIONS

- **-infile**

  name   filename containing all fasta sequences

- **-name**

  name   filename containing all names of sequences to select

- **-outfile** name

  filename where to write selcted sequences to

## SEE ALSO

[fastqselect(1)](/fastqselect/1.md)

A more extensive documentation is provided in the mira-doc package and can be found at /usr/share/doc/mira-assembler/DefinitiveGuideToMIRA.html.

You can also subscribe one of the MIRA mailing lists at

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  http://www.chevreux.org/mira\_mailinglists.html

After subscribing, mail general questions to the MIRA talk mailing list:

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  mira\_talk@freelists.org

## BUGS

To report bugs or ask for features, please use the new ticketing system at:

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  http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mira-assembler/

## AUTHOR

The author of the mira code is Bastien Chevreux \<bach@chevreux.org\>

This manual page was written by Andreas Tille \<tille@debian.org\> but can be freely used for any other distribution.