NAME

       pyfastx - fast random access to sequences from FASTA/Q file

DESCRIPTION

       usage: pyfastx COMMAND [OPTIONS]

       A command line tool for FASTA/Q file manipulation

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       -v, --version
              show program's version number and exit

       Commands:

       index  build index for fasta/q file

       stat   show detailed statistics information of fasta/q file

       split  split fasta/q file into multiple files

       fq2fa  convert fastq file to fasta file

       subseq get subsequences from fasta file by region

       sample randomly sample sequences from fasta or fastq file

       extract
              extract full sequences or reads from fasta/q file

SEE ALSO

       Each subcommand has its own on line help, which can be queried for instance with:

           $ pyfastx index --help
           usage: pyfastx index [-h] [-f] fastx [fastx ...]

           positional arguments:
             fastx       fasta or fastq file, gzip support

           options:
             -h, --help  show this help message and exit
             -f, --full  build full index, base composition will be calculated

       Look up /usr/share/doc/pyfast/README.rst for more complete documentation.