How to use Bed file to extract sequence from FASTA file?
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9.5 years ago

I tried bedtools getfasta and I get the errors that chromosome was not found in fasta file but I have triple checked it there is no blank space the chromosome name in bed file is exactly the same as in fasta file. I would like to know is there any alternatives other than using bedtools getfasta in order to extract the sequence.

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samtools faidx extracts subsequence from indexed reference sequences (http://samtools.sourceforge.net/samtools.shtml)

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I tried. But can't solve it.

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Solved well. Thanks.

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There is one problem in this tool. The result is not accurate. The sequence extracted is not the same as in bed file coordinates

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It's more likely that you made an error than that samtools faidx did...

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This is a part of the output I get from samtools faidx:

>chr1:179757197-179758470:1251-1255
TGAGT
>chr1:201237463-201238874:41-45

>chN
>chr1:201237463-201238874:62-80
238874
TGCCACAGCTGN
>chr1:201237463-201238874:62-81
238874
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You appear to have used a heavily mistyped command (e.g., chN, also the ranges are non-sensical). Post the exact command that you used and mention where you got the genome.

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You might try the faidx command from https://github.com/mdshw5/pyfaidx. There is a --default-seq parameter that allows filling in nonexistent sequence, as well as a --lazy parameter that disables bounds checking. You can pass a bed file using --bed.

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Use a command like this:

twoBitToFa http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/hg19.2bit -bed=input.bed test.fa

or for a single region:

twoBitToFa http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg19/hg19.2bit test.fa -seq=chr21 -start=1 -end=10000

Requires the UCSC tool twoBitToFa, available from http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/

If you're not on the hg19 genome, you have to index your .fa file first with faToTwoBit

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