---
name: "rdp-readseq"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "rdp-readseq"
version: "2.0.2-9"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rdp-readseq"
---

# rdp-readseq(1)

Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) sequence reading and writing

## NAME

rdp-readseq: - Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) sequence reading and writing

## SYNOPSIS

**rdp-readseq** *\<subcommand\> \<subcommand args ...\>*

## DESCRIPTION

**rdp-readseq** is a simple user interface to the sequence reading library developed by the Ribosomal Database Project.  It can handle genbank, embl, fasta, fastq, sff and sto files.  It can read from files or streams, and can handle indexing files.

## OPTIONS

List of *subcommands*:

- random-sample

  \- random select a subset or subregion of sequences

- reverse-comp

  \- reverse complement sequences

- rm-dupseq

  \- remove identical or substring of sequences

- select-seqs

  \- select or deselect sequences from a file

- split

  \- split sequences

- to-fasta

  \- convert to fasta format

- to-fastq

  \- convert to fastq format

- to-stk

  \- convert to stk format