############### 5.11 fastaFromBed ############### **fastaFromBed** extracts sequences from a FASTA file for each of the intervals defined in a BED file. The headers in the input FASTA file must exactly match the chromosome column in the BED file. ========================================================================== 5.11.1 Usage and option summary ========================================================================== Usage: :: fastaFromBed [OPTIONS] -fi -bed -fo =========================== =============================================================================================================================================================================================================== Option Description =========================== =============================================================================================================================================================================================================== **-name** Use the "name" column in the BED file for the FASTA headers in the output FASTA file. **-tab** Report extract sequences in a tab-delimited format instead of in FASTA format. **-s** Force strandedness. If the feature occupies the antisense strand, the sequence will be reverse complemented. *Default: strand information is ignored*. =========================== =============================================================================================================================================================================================================== ========================================================================== 5.11.2 Default behavior ========================================================================== **fastaFromBed** will extract the sequence defined by the coordinates in a BED interval and create a new FASTA entry in the output file for each extracted sequence. By default, the FASTA header for each extracted sequence will be formatted as follows: ":-". For example: :: $ cat test.fa >chr1 AAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCGCTACTGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG cat test.bed chr1 5 10 fastaFromBed -fi test.fa -bed test.bed -fo test.fa.out cat test.fa.out >chr1:5-10 AAACC ========================================================================== 5.11.3 Using the BED "name" column as a FASTA header. ========================================================================== Using the **-name** option, one can set the FASTA header for each extracted sequence to be the "name" columns from the BED feature. For example: :: cat test.fa >chr1 AAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCGCTACTGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG cat test.bed chr1 5 10 myseq fastaFromBed -fi test.fa -bed test.bed -fo test.fa.out -name cat test.fa.out >myseq AAACC ========================================================================== 5.11.4 Creating a tab-delimited output file in lieu of FASTA output. ========================================================================== Using the **-tab** option, the **-fo** output file will be tab-delimited instead of in FASTA format. For example: :: cat test.fa >chr1 AAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCGCTACTGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG cat test.bed chr1 5 10 myseq fastaFromBed -fi test.fa -bed test.bed -fo test.fa.out.tab -name -tab cat test.fa.out myseq AAACC ========================================================================== 5.11.5 (-s)Forcing the extracted sequence to reflect the requested strand ========================================================================== **fastaFromBed** will extract the sequence in the orientation defined in the strand column when the "-s" option is used. For example: :: cat test.fa >chr1 AAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCGCTACTGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG cat test.bed chr1 20 25 forward 1 + chr1 20 25 reverse 1 - fastaFromBed -fi test.fa -bed test.bed -s -name -fo test.fa.out cat test.fa.out >forward CGCTA >reverse TAGCG