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Welcome to FaBox (1.61) - an online fasta sequence toolbox
 
NEWS: 20.01.2022 Fasta2Migrate was fixed. Version 1.61 21.12.2021 File upload has been disabled. Our server no longer allows file uploads. 21.12.2021 File upload is broken - use copy & paste from notepad instead. 16.11.2021 Version 1.6 - updated to Php 8.0 21.03.2019 Version 1.5 - Haplotypecollapser working again. 21.03.2019 I was forced to code php again.. 19.02.2019 Moved to new server - a few code changes to still work. 18.02.2013 Added fasta sequence subtractor 06.08.2012 Small bug in random sequence generator fixed 29.08.2011 Update with newick parser 10.09.2009 FaBox has moved to http://www.birc.au.dk/software/fabox 16.01.2009 Added the fasta2PAML converter 10.11.2008 FaBox is available for direct download (see Faq) 07.11.2008 Faq updated: memory problems and downloading FaBox 04.08.2008 DNA collapser updated, now ignores case differences (ACG = acg) 31.03.2008 Show variable sites updated to 0- or 1-based sequence position numbering 25.02.2008 Header extractor updated 06.12.2007 Alignment: show variable sites only added 18.09.2007 Alignment cropper updated (fasta output added) 04.06.2007 Bug has been fixed in all pages. 04.06.2007 Major BUG discovered. MAC format is incorrectly parsed. 30.05.2007 Updated to 1.1, mostly invisible code changes 20.05.2007 FaBox paper is online, reference added to faq 10.04.2007 FaBox has been accepted for publication in Molecular Ecology Notes 10.04.2007 FaBox has been updated, shoutbox removed 05.04.2007 Fasta sequence extractor updated 02.04.2007 Fasta2excel conversion added 01.03.2007 Alignment joiner service added 16.02.2007 Shoutbox moved, updated log functions 31.01.2007 Fasta to TCS converter is available 31.01.2007 Comment lines are now allowed in input data 26.01.2007 Citation details added to help page 26.01.2007 Official URL is now http://www.birc.au.dk/fabox 26.01.2007 Changed links to sequence converters 22.01.2007 Added email notification of shouts (so I'll answer them!) 03.01.2007 Alignment cropper updated 05.12.2006 Shoutbox added - post a comment/request 08.11.2006 No updates in a while due to teaching and arrival of new baby 07.09.2006 Fasta sequence extractor service added by request 03.09.2006 Fasta joiner service added 29.08.2006 DNAcollapser moved and integrated with common FaBox layout 29.08.2006 log data was restored by manual copying of the server files 28.08.2006 Fasta header editor added 28.08.2006 Added file upload to all services 25.08.2006 Added file upload to some services, rest will follow. 21.08.2006 fasta2migrate added, only produces an infile. 16.08.2006 Reinstalled local phpserver, we're back. 13.08.2006 FaBox is online again, but all log data disappeared 11.08.2006 FaBox is down due to upgrade problems. 10.08.2006 Alignment cropper fixed.
Sequence 2 fasta converters (external tools)
HCV Sequence Conversion Interface
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ReadSeq at EBI
Working with fasta headers
Fasta header extractor (and header splitter)
Simple and fast way of extraction the headers from fasta files - and optionally split each header into fields based on a chosen character/word.
Fasta header editor
Simple and fast way of extracting headers, edit them and reapplying them without worrying about the sequence itself.
Fasta header replacer
Some programs do not like the fancy headers in fasta files and you have to live with short, unique names - that are really non-descriptive. Here you can replace headers back and forth by submitting old and new headers - which you'll typically keep in a excel spreadsheet.
Working with fasta datasets/alignments
Fasta sequence extractor
Simple and fast way of extracting some sequences from a large sequence set, based on a list of headers or fuzzy matching.
Fasta sequence subtractor
Simple and fast way of removing some sequences from a large sequence set, based on a list of headers or fuzzy matching.
Fasta sequence joiner
Simple and fast way of joining a set of fasta sequences into one sequence
Fasta dataset splitter/divider
Simple and fast way of dividing your dataset into two sets by a header keyword. It will split into sets WITH and WITHOUT the given header keyword (like 'females/males', 'population1/population2')
Fasta alignment joiner
Simple and fast way of joining two alignments, sequence by sequence. It will join alignment 1,sequence 1 with alignment 2, sequence 1 and so on.... (see example)
Alignment trimmer
Trims an alignment to the shortest sequence. It simply removes the boundary areas that are full of gaps.
Show variable sites only
Extracts all the variable sites from an alignment
DNA to haplotype collapser and converter
Will collapse a set of sequences into haplotypes and output som simple statistics and formatted input files for Arlequin
Data conversion
Strip branch lengths and bootstrap values from newick trees (newick parser)
Will take a newick tree and create three versions: the original, branch lengths only and topology only (for ASR in paml).
Create formatted sequence file for PAML analysis (fasta2paml)
Will format your fasta sequences and create a correct input file for PAML (it's a phylip format with some modifications).
Fasta2excel converter
Will explode a sequence set into tabular format. It's possible to explode sequences base-by-base and to transpose (flip) the resulting table.
Create TCS input file from fasta (fasta2tcs)
Will format your fasta sequences and create a correct input file for the TCS software (TCS: Phylogenetic network estimation using statistical parsimony, Clement et al. 2000).
Create Migrate input file from fasta (fasta2migrate)
Will format your DNA sequences and create a migrate file called 'infile'. The produced file will be correctly formatted to be analysed by migrate.
Create MrBayes input file from fasta (fasta2mrbayes)
Will format your DNA sequences and create a MrBayes file, with data and analysis settings included. The produced file will run a series of analyses and produce consensus trees with posterior probabilities.
DNA to haplotype collapser and converter
Will collapse a set of sequences into haplotypes and output som simple statistics and formatted input files for Arlequin
Sequence generation
Random DNA sequence generator
Generates a specified number of random DNA sequences of given length and exact base composition (will also generate sequences of varying length)