use Bio::Perl; $database="genbank"; $format="fasta"; $pipe ="\\|"; $space = " "; open(INPUTFILE, ") { my($line) = $_; chomp($line); $line=~ s/$space/:/; $line=~ s/$pipe/$space/; $line=~ s/g/G/; $line=~ s/i/I/; $id= "$line"; #print "$id"; #print "\n"; $sequence = get_sequence($database, $id); $test = write_sequence( ">>sequences_1.txt", $format, $sequence); open (CHK , ">>checking.txt"); print CHK <