[Bioperl-l] Fishing redundant sequences in FASTA files [Right formatting]

Dave Messina David.Messina at sbc.su.se
Tue Feb 15 15:09:35 EST 2011


Hi Juan,

There's a nice example script in the BioPerl distribution that Jason Stajich
wrote which uses MD5 checksums to do the sequence comparison:


https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/blob/master/scripts/utilities/bp_nrdb.PLS


There are also faster, nonBioPerl tools for this, such as the one that comes
with UCLUST:

    http://www.drive5.com/usearch/


Dave



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