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I am working with a group of gene names which I want to convert to their GenBank accession numbers. I have them sorted out already: the first column is in GenBank, the second column is the gene names which I want to replace.

FJ176297       B6DXA9
FJ176298       B6DXB0
BABH01035639   H9IRZ2
BABH01035638   H9IRZ3
BABH01035606   H9IRZ6
BABH01035561   H9IS05
DQ443298       Q1HPV4
BABH01035559   H9IS09
BABH01035561   H9IS11
BABH01035625   H9IS16
BABH01035634   H9IS17
BABH01035644   H9IS24
BABH01035679   H9IS34
BABH01035692   H9IS38
AY769302       Q5UAQ6
BABH01024272   H9IS52
KF703567       H9IS55
BABH01024200   H9IS59
BABH01024199   H9IS60
BABH01024182   H9IS64
BABH01024179   H9IS65
BABH01024137   H9IS68
BABH01024123   H9IS71
BABH01024110   H9IS77

Now, I need to replace items in coulumn 2 with items in column 1 in 150 files where I have the results.

gene alignment

Hello Nano!

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