GT-SEQUNIQ(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay bestie, meet gt-sequniq — she filters out repeated sequences in the sequence files you hand her. that's it, that's the job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gt sequniq [option ...] sequence_file [...]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, you've got a pile of sequence files and some of the sequences are literally the same sequence twice (rude), and gt-sequniq is gonna yeet the duplicates and hand you back the unique ones. main character behaviour, honestly.

🎀 the flags, one by one 🎀

• -rev [yes|no] — turn this on and she also filters out sequences whose reverse complement matches a sequence she's already output. so like, the mirror-universe twin gets dropped too. default: no 🙈
• -v [yes|no] — be verbose. she'll talk to you about what she's doing. default: no
• -width [value] — sets the output width for FASTA sequence printing. pass 0 and formatting is disabled entirely (one long line, no breaks, no chill). default: 0
• -o [filename] — redirect output to the file you name instead of just shouting into the terminal. default: undefined 👀
• -gzip [yes|no] — write the output file gzip-compressed. default: no
• -bzip2 [yes|no] — write the output file bzip2-compressed. default: no
• -force [yes|no] — force writing to the output file, no questions asked. default: no
• -help — display help and exit. she'll explain herself 🫶
• -version — display version information and exit. periodt.

⚠️ okay important, no cap: this tool will only remove identical duplicates of sequences. it will not remove substrings that are contained within other sequences. so a short sequence hiding inside a longer one? she's not clocking that. she's a dupe-filter, not a containment-detector, iykyk 💀

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🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, report it here:

https://github.com/genometools/genometools/issues

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and that's the whole page, babe 💖 this was GenomeTools 1.6.6, dated 11/09/2025 — slay, iconic, no notes 👑⭐