<![CDATA[BOL: Unable to index fasta file with samtools !]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/35891/unable-to-index-fasta-file-with-samtools? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/35891/unable-to-index-fasta-file-with-samtools Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:44:10 -0600 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/answers/view/35891/unable-to-index-fasta-file-with-samtools <![CDATA[Unable to index fasta file with samtools !]]> I am unable to index fasta file with samtools ! It return "different line length in sequence" error message . How to fix it? 

nc@radha[Downloads] samtools faidx dedup.genome.scf.fasta_assembly.fna []
[fai_build_core] different line length in sequence 'jcf7180000001219'.
Could not build fai index dedup.genome.scf.fasta_assembly.fna.fai
nc@radha[Downloads] more dedup.genome.scf.fasta_assembly.fna| grep ">" | wc -l
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