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<div class="">my $fasta   = &#39;fasta35&#39;;<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Firsly, I would recommend upgrading to fasta36 which was released in 2011 I think. It&#39;s focussed on batch and command line usage rather than interactive usage.</div>

<div><a href="http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/fasta36/">http://faculty.virginia.edu/wrpearson/fasta/fasta36/</a><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div class="">my $command = &quot;$fasta -b 1 $query $library&quot;;<br></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">By default fasta36 truncates the descriptions (and I think fasta35 did too), so I think you need to add &quot;-L&quot; to the options (&quot;long library descriptions&quot;).</div>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>-- <br>--Torsten Seemann<br>--Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Dept. Microbiology, Monash University, AUSTRALIA<br>
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