Parsing a fasta sequence with start and end coordinates


 
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Old 04-15-2011
Could you upload a little of fasta file as example, and your expecting output?
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Old 04-15-2011
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Originally Posted by empyrean
cut command is not working properly.. its splicing whole file in to 10 frament length lines
Yes.The given cut command is intended to work as you said. You would need to change the start and end character index accordingly. If you need to only match certain lines to extract characters, provide more information.
Code:
cut -c15-25 inputfile

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