Have a look at http://bioperl.org. Also, we are not biologists and thus "sequence similarity" and "consensus sequence" tell us very little. You will have to provide more technical explanations how you would measure similarity and what "consensus" would mean in your case. Also see what has to offer for FASTA.

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In reply to Re: How to read and write several DNA sequences in the format FASTA placed in one file? by Corion
in thread How to read and write several DNA sequences in the format FASTA placed in one file? by vouchsafing

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