Awk is widely used these days for extraction and manipulation of large scale biological data in Unix/Linux.Most of the awk code is single liner.
Useful Weblinks:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~dholland/computers/awk.html
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.tx...
Tags: awk, gawk, nawk, sed, data, sequencing, one liner
There are several ways you can convert fastq to fasta sequences. Some methods are listed below.
Using SED
sed can be used to selectively print the desired lines from a file, so if you print the first and 2rd line of every 4 lines, you get the sequence header and sequence need...