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How To Get The Fasta Format From The Sequence File That Each Row Has A Sequence

I have a document that one sequence one row.I want to get the fasta format and the name is the sequence.

aaaacccc
aaccctttt
aatgtgtgt
gggg

The result should be this

>aaaacccc
aaaacccc
>aaccctttt
aaccctttt
>aatgtgtgt
aatgtgtgt
>gggg
gggg
fasta format sequence
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updated by Jeroen Van Goey Jeroen Van Goey • written by 2011101101 • 2011101101

I am trying to conceive what purpose this could ever be useful for... Anyone?

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written by Daniel Daniel

3 answers

awk '{print ">"$0"\n"$0}' document

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written by PoGibas PoGibas 
perl -e 'while(<>){chomp; print ">$_\n$_\n";}' inputfile.txt
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written by Pawel Szczesny Pawel Szczesny

No need to chomp ;) perl -e 'while(<>){print ">",$_,$_}' input.txt

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written by fo3c fo3c

(a bit shorter still: perl -e 'print ">",$_,$_ while<>' input.txt )

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written by fo3c fo3c

no need to while with -n: perl -ne 'print ">$_$_"' input

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written by JC JC

The python version:

import sys

for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
    print ">"+line.strip()
    print line.strip()

assuming this code is in a file named "makefasta.py", the syntax is:

python makefasta.py input.txt
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written by KCC KCC

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