# Mothur to Piphillin?

**URL:** <https://forum.mothur.org/t/mothur-to-piphillin/20958>\
**Category:** Integrating mothur with other programs\
**Created:** [April 15, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/mothur-to-piphillin/20958 "2021-04-15T23:22:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![LALAWSON](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@LALAWSON](https://forum.mothur.org/u/LALAWSON)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/mothur-to-piphillin/20958/1 "2021-04-15T23:22:22Z")

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I’m trying to import Mothur data into Piphillin. I have made my OTU represenative sequence file using get.oturep and imported my otu abundance data. For the rep. sequence FASTA file, I have to format it so it just says \>otu and the next row is the sequence. I can’t find a mothur command to format it like that so I had to edit the file myself. However Piphillin keeps giving me the error that the headers do not match. How did you guys get the files for these or make it work?

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**Author:** ![pschloss](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/pschloss/32/4_2.png) [@pschloss](https://forum.mothur.org/u/pschloss)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/mothur-to-piphillin/20958/2 "2021-04-19T17:43:43Z")

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Sorry, I’m not familiar with Piphillin. That format is a fasta formatted file, which is what the output is. It’s not clear what the headers from the fasta file need to match with.

Pat

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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.mothur.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.mothur.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.mothur.org/t/mothur-to-piphillin/20958/3 "2021-04-29T17:44:13Z")

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