text: user10651: 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.
  
  user73: Are you not allowed to use the web BLAST tool? 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.
  
original_text: 10651: <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>
   73: <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>
  