split_fasta(1)

💖 split_fasta — okay bestie, let's split some fasta 💖

From the Cooperative Computing Tools manual set, section 1. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

split_fasta — split a fasta file according to sequence and character counts 🧬✂️

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

split_fasta query_granularity character_granularity fasta_file

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so split_fasta is a simple script that chops up a fasta file based on whatever parameters you hand it. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

here's the tea: the script walks through the file you gave it, and it keeps generating a new sub_file called input.i every single time the contents of the previous file, input.(i-1), go over either the number of queries you set with query_granularity or the number of characters you set with character_granularity. so whichever limit gets hit first? that's the one that triggers a new file. periodt. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

literally none, bestie. this section is empty in the original and we're not about to make stuff up. the arguments in the synopsis are the whole story. 🫶

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• Slays successfully → returns zero 🎉
• Did not slay → returns non-zero 😭

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

also empty. nothing to see here. go touch some grass. 🍓

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

say you wanna split a fasta file called smallpks.fa into pieces that are no larger than 500 queries, and no piece should receive extra sequences if it goes past 10000 characters. you'd literally just do:

python split_fasta 500 10000 smallpks.fa

and that generates files input.0, input.1, ..., input.N — where N is the number of appropriately constrained files necessary to contain all the sequences in smallpks.fa. 👑

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details. 🫶

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Makeflow User Manual
• makeflow(1) makeflow_monitor(1) makeflow_analyze(1) makeflow_viz(1) makeflow_graph_log(1) starch(1) makeflow_ec2_setup(1) makeflow_ec2_cleanup(1) makeflow_ec2_estimate(1)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie. this was CCTools 8.0.0 DEVELOPMENT energy, mwah. 💋 go split something. ✨🧚💜