<p>Are you not allowed to use the <a href="https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE=MegaBlast&amp;PROGRAM=blastn&amp;PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch" rel="nofollow noreferrer">web BLAST tool</a>? That's what I use if I need to quickly find out the likely origin of a DNA sequence.</p>
<p>There are command-line ways to do the same thing, but I only use them if I need to search hundreds or thousands of sequences at once.</p>

CC BY-SA 4.0
2021-03-04T10:31:14.903Z
2021-03-04T10:31:14.903Z
gringer
<p>In a school project we got the task of finding the species from two FASTA files. We got some hints of what to look for, like it is a unicellular eukaryote and that we can use blast. We don't know if the two files are the same species.</p>
<p>So I wonder if there is a standard way of finding species from FASTA files using the terminal?</p>
<p>I have a background in informatics, so I'm not well known with bioinformatics tools.</p>

<fasta><blast><taxonomy><homework>
Find species from FASTA files
# Find species from FASTA files

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-03-03)

In a school project we got the task of finding the species from two FASTA files. We got some hints of what to look for, like it is a unicellular eukaryote and that we can use blast. We don't know if the two files are the same species.

So I wonder if there is a standard way of finding species from FASTA files using the terminal?

I have a background in informatics, so I'm not well known with bioinformatics tools.

**Tags:** fasta, blast, taxonomy, homework

---

## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-03-04. Score: 2

Are you not allowed to use the [web BLAST tool](https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE=MegaBlast&PROGRAM=blastn&PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch)? That's what I use if I need to quickly find out the likely origin of a DNA sequence.

There are command-line ways to do the same thing, but I only use them if I need to search hundreds or thousands of sequences at once.


---

