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need code for sorting fasta header

Hello All,

I would like to sort the fasta header line (annotation). Below is the example of how my data is and it is in .txt

>AHF21055.1 ribosomal protein S4 (mitochondrion) [Helianthus annuus]
>AAM96597.1 ATP synthase F0 subunit 6 (mitochondrion) [Chaetosphaeridium globosum]
>AAM96598.1 ATP synthase F0 subunit 8 (mitochondrion) [Chaetosphaeridium globosum]
>AAM96599.1 ATP synthase F0 subunit 9 (mitochondrion) [Chaetosphaeridium globosum]

I would like to get the data as below: just the accession number and protein name preferably in table format and remove everything after the protein name.

example:

>AHF21055.1     ribosomal protein S4
>AAM96597.1     ATP synthase F0 subunit 6
>AAM96598.1     ATP synthase F0 subunit 8
>AAM96599.1     ATP synthase F0 subunit 9

Thank you in advance!

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updated by Ram Ram • written by divyaranib.10 • divyaranib.10

What have you tried?

PS: Please use the formatting bar (especially the code option) to present your post better. I've done it for you this time.
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written by Ram Ram

Sure Ram will do that from next time. Thanks a lot! I am kinda new to this forum

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written by divyaranib.10 • divyaranib.10

Assuming the (mitochondrion) is always there, this is what I can think on the of my head cut -f1 -d'(' header.txt | sort. There will be an empty space at the end and can be removed by sed 's/ *$//'.

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written by Eric Lim Eric Lim

Do all of your entries follow that format? Will there be some where the string (mitochondrion) is not there?

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written by Joe Joe

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This gives me the exact output you want as long as (mitochondrion) is present in all lines:

cat old_fasta_headers | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' | cut -d\( -f1 | sed 's/\(\.[[:digit:]]*\) /\1\t/g ; s/$/\n/g' \
> new_fasta_headers

Hope this helps.

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written by n,n n,n

From my experience, FASTA headers consist of two parts - the ID and the description. You can use a tool like bioawk to extract just the identifier and then sort the output, or you can use any combination of command line utilities, such as grep -o or cut or sed, much like Eric Lim's comment.

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written by Ram Ram

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