FASTA IDs Retriever

A fast lightweight Windows GUI app that retrieves Identifiers from an imput fasta file

Dependencies

1. Windows 11 or 10 version 16215.0 or higher(type winver on the search button and click winver to find your OS version)
2. Windows Subsystem for linux(wsl1)
3. the file in the bin folder

Usage

Click on the FASTA IDs Retriever.exe file

Click browse and select an input file

Select whether or not you want to remove the ncbi/refseq/uniprot prefixes lcl|, gnl|, ref|, sp|, tr|

Select whether or not pipe(|) is used as an FASTA identifier/description seperator.
The default is space

Select the field number(which part to keep as ID after the pipe or space split of the fasta header). Default is 1

Click Run program

The example input/output files can be seen here

Input file for example 1 was downloaded from solgenomics.net tomato annotation version 4.1.

Input file for example 2 was downloaded from ncbi.

Input file for example 3 was downloaded from lotus base(MG20 v3.0 proteins file).

NOTE: This program also retrieves FASTA identifiers when no FASTA descriptions exist