shuffleseq

Function

Description

shuffleseq reads one or more sequences and writes them out again in a random (shuffled) order. The number of shuffles may be specified. Only the order of sequences is changed, no bases or residues are changed.

Usage

Command line arguments


Input file format

shuffleseq reads one or more sequence USAs.

Output file format

Each run will produce a different sequence.

Note that these two sequences have the same name.

Data files

None.

Notes

shuffleseq is useful for producing sets of sequences with randomised order which can be used for checking the statistics of sequence similarity searches.

References

None.

Warnings

None.

Diagnostic Error Messages

None.

Exit status

It always exits with status 0.

Known bugs

None.

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