[Bioperl-l] Re: removing duplicate fasta records

[Michal Kurowski]

Ewan Birney [birney@ebi.ac.uk] wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > perl -ne 'BEGIN{$/=">";$"=";"}/(.*?)\n(.+?)\s*>?$/s && push
> > @{$h{$2}},$1;END{for(keys%h){print ">@{$h{$_}}\n$_\n"}}'
> >
> > Which will remove redundant entries AND concatenate their description
> > lines :-)
> >

> 
> The reason I ... despair .... of Perl is the ability to write things like
> this (no offence Paul - I am sure you wouldn't write something like that
> in a script using a production setting would you ;) ).

Actually that one-liner seems to be usefull, in some cases.

> My Love-Hate relationship with Perl just deepens.

We will have to love Seals for some time for just that reason.

Check it out:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/CBBresearch/Walker/SEALS/index.html.

Cheers,

-- 
Michal Kurowski
<michal@genesilico.pl>