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

# fastautils(1)

FASTA format file manipulation utilities

## NAME

fastautils - FASTA format file manipulation utilities

## SYNOPSIS

**fastachecksum \[ options \] \<input file\>**

**fastaclean**

**fastaclip**

**fastacomposition**

**fastadiff**

**fastaexplode**

**fastafetch**

**fastahardmask**

**fastaindex**

**fastalength**

**fastanrdb**

**fastaoverlap**

**fastareformat**

**fastaremove**

**fastarevcomp**

**fastasoftmask**

**fastasort**

**fastasplit**

**fastasubseq**

**fastatranslate**

**fastavalidcds**

## DESCRIPTION

These are utilities for the manipulation of FASTA format sequence databases which are distributed with the exonerate sequence alignment program.

## ENVIRONMENT

Not documented yet.

## EXAMPLES

**fastalength sequence.fasta**

blah blah

## VERSION

This documentation accompanies version 2.2.0 of the exonerate package.

## AUTHOR

Guy St.C. Slater.  \<guy@ebi.ac.uk\>.

See the AUTHORS file accompanying the source code for a list of contributors.

## AVAILABILITY

This source code for the exonerate package is available under the terms of the GNU *general* public licence.

Please see the file COPYING which was distrubuted with this package, or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details.

This package has been developed as part of the ensembl project. Please see http://www.ensembl.org/ for more information.

## SEE ALSO

[**exonerate**(1)](/exonerate/1.md),**e-PCR**