fastaselecth-GUI

A fast lightweight windows x86_64 GUI wrapper for fastaselecth

Installation

1. install wsl
2. Download fastaselecth GUI.exe from the bin/gui/ folder
3. Download the binary fastaselecth using wget:

wget -O /tmp/fastaselecth https://github.com/BioGUIwslLab/fastaselecth-GUI/raw/refs/heads/main/bin/cmd/fastaselecth

4. Make it executable:

chmod +x /tmp/fastaselecth

5. Move it to /usr/bin for global access:

sudo mv /tmp/fastaselecth /usr/bin/fastaselecth

Usage

Click browse to select the input fasta, txt and output directory to save the output fasta file

The output fasta file will the the same filename as the input txt file but with a .fasta extension, unless a single-fasta format is specified were the filenames will be the input ids.

If Rejection of the entries of the input txt file is selected the output will contain all the entries but those within the input txt file. In that case the output file will have a non_ prefix, the input txt filename and a .fasta extension.

If an identifier doesn't exist in the fasta file that identifier will be ignored.

The data used as an example in the data folder have been derived from solgenomics.net