in reply to Spltting Genbank File

A Genbank file is made of a series of Genbank records separated by a line consisting of "//"

You are reading your file line by line:  while ($line = <$IN>) and splitting each line in different lines (??) my @line = split(/\///,$line). Obviously, this is not what you want.

An easy way to solve this is to read the file record by record by assigning the value "//" to $/ (see perlvar) and then process the record

Another possibility is to read the file line by line, and update the $accession, $biotype and $sequence variables, accordingly. But you can be in a problem if a record doesn't have one of them

Update: Following the first approach:

use strict; use warnings; $/ = "//"; my $genfile = "c:\bemisia_coi.gb"; open my $ifh, "<", $genfile or die "cannot open $genfile: $!\n"; while (my $chunk = <$ifh>){ last if eof $ifh; my ($accession) = $chunk =~ /LOCUS\s*([A-Z]*\d+)/; my ($biotype) = $chunk =~ /BIOTYPE\s*([A-Z])/; my ($sequence) = $chunk =~ /ORIGIN\s*(.*)$/s; $sequence =~ s/\s|\d//g; my $outfile = "${accession}_${biotype}"; open my $ofh, '>' $outfile or die "cannot open $outfile: $!\n"; print $ofh, ">$accession\n$sequence"; close $ofh; }

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