Convert .ab1/.abi sequence file to FASTA?

What tool can I use to convert a large number of .ab1 sequence files to FASTA?

Ideally a free tool I can execute from the terminal in linux.

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updated 8.9 years ago by Biostar

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using staden

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updated 6.8 years ago by Ram

• written 11.0 years ago by Pierre Lindenbaum

You could use Biopython's SeqIO module with a little Python to loop over all the input .ab1 files and call the function Bio.SeqIO.convert()

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