[EMBOSS] Reading Two Sequences from stdin with water

[andrew warry (BITS)]

>Is there a solution to this? I would really like to avoid the mess of
temporary files and >run water in a clean pipe (pun intended  ;-)  )

Hi
How about :

nthseq x.fasta -number 2 -stdout -auto | water -aseq stdin -bseq x.fasta
-stdout -auto

It isn't very neat and does a redundant comparison but it does the job!


Andrew

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