SeqKit
A command-line toolkit for inspecting, filtering, transforming, and converting FASTA and FASTQ files.
By Wei Shen
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About SeqKit
SeqKit provides commands for common sequence-file tasks, including statistics, filtering, searching, sampling, splitting, sorting, and format conversion. It reads FASTA and FASTQ data, including several compressed formats, and supports piping input and output.
The project provides binaries for Linux, Windows, and macOS, with amd64 and arm64 builds. It also supports installation through Conda and Homebrew.
Strengths
- Offers many commands for sequence-file operations
- Reads FASTA and FASTQ plus several compressed formats
- Supports standard input and output for shell pipelines
Limitations
- Focused on FASTA and FASTQ sequence data
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the MIT license.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- Wei Shen
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Researchers and bioinformatics users working with FASTA or FASTQ files
- Categories
- CLI tools, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula
- Sources