FASTAQ-TO_UNIQUE_BY_ID(1)

💖 NAME 💖

fastaq_to_unique_by_id — bestie, this one yeets duplicate sequences out of your file based on their names, and keeps the longest seqs. Periodt.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the vibe is this:

usage: fastaq_to_unique_by_id <infile> <outfile>

This little icon removes duplicate sequences from your input file, and it decides who's a duplicate based on their names. If the same name pops up more than once, bestie, the longest sequence is the one that gets kept — the rest are getting ghosted 🙈.

And the order of sequences? Preserved in the output. No shuffling, no chaos, no main-character-upstaging. Order of sequences is preserved in output. slay.

🎀 positional arguments:

• infile — Name of input file. This is the file you're feeding in, the little snack 🍓
• outfile — Name of output file. This is where the freshly de-duped goodness lands ✨

💅 options:

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. Classic. The "help me bestie" flag, always there for you 🫶

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💀 reminder: duplicates get judged by name, and the longest one wins. So if you got two seqs with the same name and one's lil and one's lorge, only the lorge one survives. no cap.

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fastaq_to_unique_by_id 3.17.0 · January 2026 — mwah, that's the version and the date, go off, you're all caught up 💜✨