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  • Illusive Man
    Member
    • Sep 2013
    • 15

    #1

    Fastest way to add Ns to variable length sequences to get uniform length

    I have a fasta file with a thousand sequences with a distribution of lengths between 100 and 150bp. I would like to add Ns to all sequences whose length is <150. I know it is possible but thus far I have yet to find anything to easily do this. Please help. Thanks!
  • Brian Bushnell
    Super Moderator
    • Jan 2014
    • 2709

    #2
    Cross-posted:

    https://www.biostars.org/p/238635/

    Please link other sites when you cross-post, so people don't waste their time answering a question that has already been answered.

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    • jkbonfield
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2008
      • 146

      #3
      Not fast, but something like:

      Code:
      perl -e 'while(<>) {if (/^>/) {print;next}; chomp; print $_,"N" x (150-length($_)),"\n"}'  in.fasta

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      • gringer
        David Eccles (gringer)
        • May 2011
        • 845

        #4
        That looks like it should be plenty fast enough, more likely to be limited by the read speed of the hard drive than the speed of the code.

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