Converting NBRF Format

NBRF files consist of one or more groups of non-blank lines separated by one or more blank lines; the non-blank lines look similar to this:

>P1;Chloroflex

Chloroflex 428 bases

MSKEHVQTIA TDDVSKNGHT PPTNASTPPY PFVAIVGQAE LKLALLLCVV

NPTIGGVMVM GHRGTAKSTA VRALAAMLPP IKAVAGCPYS CAPDRTAGLC

DQCRALEQQS GKTKKPAVIN IPVPVVDLPL GATEDRVCGT LDIERALTQG

VQAFAPGLLA RANRGFLYID EVNLLEDHLV DVLLDVAASG VNVVEREGVS

VRHPARFVLV GSGNPEEGDL RPQLLDRFGL HARITTITDV SERVEIVKRR

REYDADPFAF VEKWAKETQK LQRKIKQAQR RLPEVILPDP VLYKIAELCV

KLEVDGHRGE LTLARA-ATA LAALEGRNEV TVQDVRRIAV LALRHRLRKD

PLETQD---- ---DAVRIER AVEEVLVP-- ---------- ----------

---------- ---------- --------*

Each group begins with a line starting with a greater-than symbol (‘>’). This line is ignored. The first word in the following line (e.g., Chloroflex above) is treated as the name of the sequence; the rest of that line is ignored Subsequent lines are taken as the sequence. This example would be converted to the MEGA file format as follows:

#mega

!Title: filename

#Chloroflex