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Question: Question: How to count the occurance of letters in fasta file?

Poonam Mahapatra
2955 days ago

Question: How to count the occurance of letters in fasta file?

I received a new genome to annotated. I need your help to quickly count the occurance of all the letters in fasta file.

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Hmmm, I think grep can help you better 

grep -v '^>' genome.fasta | tr -d '\n' | sed -e 's/\(.\)/\1\n/g' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn