## Utilities / Index FASTA

### Description

Given a FASTA file, this tool creates an index file (.fai) for it.

### Parameters

None

### Details

Given a FASTA file, this tool creates an index file (.fai) for it. Index file is needed to view a sequence in the Chipster genome browser.

### Output

Output is an index file.

### References

This tool is based on the SAMtools package. Please cite the article The Sequence alignment/map (SAM) format and SAMtools by Li H., Handsaker B., Wysoker A., Fennell T., Ruan J., Homer N., Marth G., Abecasis G., Durbin R. and 1000 Genome Project Data Processing Subgroup (2009) Bioinformatics, 25, 2078-9. [PMID: 19505943].