#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; use Bio::SeqIO; my $seqobj; print "please type in the name of a file\n"; my $file = ; my $seqio = Bio::SeqIO->new (-format => 'GenBank', -file => $file); while ($seqobj = $seqio->next_seq()) { printf "Sequence: %s\n",$seqobj->seq; # I'm not sure what you need other than the # sequence - here's some examples: printf "Display ID: %s\n",$seqobj->display_id; printf "Description: %s\n",$seqobj->desc; printf "Division: %s\n",$seqobj->division; printf "Accession: %s\n",$seqobj->accession; }