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Hi, if you won't know which header section you need until you start parsing the second file, I'd think you'd have a hard time doing what you want efficiently on the fly. Can you simply break your FASTA file into separate files in advance, one per header?


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by TJCooper (Beadle) on Nov 30, 2017 at 13:43 UTC
    Indeed, I found that to be the main issue when trying to think of a way to do this. I could definitely split the FASTA file beforehand, although I try to minimise the amount of steps required to run a script hence the question! Thanks for your input.
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