SLICE_FASTA(1)

🧬 SLICE_FASTA — bestie edition ✨

okay so picture this: it's giving slice_fasta from the FSA suite, version 1.15.9, and it lives in section 1 of the manual (that's the user commands girlies 💅). Its whole personality? Cutting a subsequence out of an input FASTA file. Obsessed, honestly.

🌸 NAME 🌸

slice_fasta — slice a subsequence out of an input FASTA file 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

slice_fasta <FASTA file> <sequence name> <start> <end> <strand>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so slice_fasta comes to you straight from FSA 1.15.9, and what it does is literally right there in the name: it slices a subsequence out of an input FASTA file. main character energy fr fr 🔥

the coordinates are 1-based and fully-closed. no cap, that's the whole vibe check — so both your <start> and your <end> are included, and counting starts at 1, not 0. don't come at it with 0-based energy, it will not eat that 🙈

now, about <strand>: if you just... don't pass it, then the + strand is assumed. easy. lowkey a slay. 🦋

but if you ask for the - strand, here's the tea 🍓 — the subsequence gets pulled out first, and then it gets reverse-complemented. in that order. that's the move, that's the whole routine, iconic behaviour honestly 👑

ngl bestie, the synopsis lists <strand> as one of the five things you hand over — the omitted-<strand> case is the documented behaviour for when it's not there, so just know that's what the page says. 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution, and — cute — it can be used for any other usage of the program too. generous queen 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

nothing listed here, bestie. this one stands alone. periodt. ⭐

and that's the whole page!! written by Andreas Tille for Debian, from slice_fasta 1.15.9, dated December 2015 — go forth and slice, you absolute icon 🧚💖