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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import print_function
+from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict, Counter
+import logging
+import argparse
+import glob
+import os
+
+# Create a logger
+logging.basicConfig(format="%(name)s - %(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s")
+logger = logging.getLogger(__file__)
+logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
+
+
+def read_salmon_top_transcript(salmon):
+    txs = set()
+    fn = glob.glob(os.path.join(salmon, "*", "quant.sf"))[0]
+    with open(fn) as inh:
+        for line in inh:
+            if line.startswith("Name"):
+                continue
+            txs.add(line.split()[0])
+            if len(txs) > 100:
+                break
+    logger.info("Transcripts found in FASTA: %s" % txs)
+    return txs
+
+def read_kallisto_top_transcript(kallisto):
+    txs = set()
+    fn = glob.glob(os.path.join(kallisto, "*", "abundance.tsv"))[0]
+    with open(fn) as inh:
+        next(inh)  # Skip header line
+        for line in inh:
+            txs.add(line.split('\t')[0])
+            if len(txs) > 100:
+                break
+    logger.info("Transcripts found in FASTA: %s" % txs)
+    return txs
+
+def tx2gene(quant_type, gtf, quants, gene_id, extra, out):
+    if quant_type == 'kallisto':
+        txs = read_kallisto_top_transcript(quants)
+    else:
+        txs = read_salmon_top_transcript(quants)
+    
+    votes = Counter()
+    gene_dict = defaultdict(list)
+    with open(gtf) as inh:
+        for line in inh:
+            if line.startswith("#"):
+                continue
+            cols = line.split("\t")
+            attr_dict = OrderedDict()
+            for gff_item in cols[8].split(";"):
+                item_pair = gff_item.strip().split(" ")
+                if len(item_pair) > 1:
+                    value = item_pair[1].strip().replace('"', "")
+                    if value in txs:
+                        votes[item_pair[0].strip()] += 1
+
+                    attr_dict[item_pair[0].strip()] = value
+            try:
+                gene_dict[attr_dict[gene_id]].append(attr_dict)
+            except KeyError:
+                continue
+
+    if not votes:
+        logger.warning("No attribute in GTF matching transcripts")
+        return None
+
+    txid = votes.most_common(1)[0][0]
+    logger.info("Attributed found to be transcript: %s" % txid)
+    seen = set()
+    with open(out, "w") as outh:
+        for gene in gene_dict:
+            for row in gene_dict[gene]:
+                if txid not in row:
+                    continue
+                if (gene, row[txid]) not in seen:
+                    seen.add((gene, row[txid]))
+                    if not extra in row:
+                        extra_id = gene
+                    else:
+                        extra_id = row[extra]
+                    print("%s\t%s\t%s" % (row[txid], gene, extra_id), file=outh)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="""Get tx to gene names for tximport""")
+    parser.add_argument("--quant_type", type=str, help="Quantification type", default = 'salmon')
+    parser.add_argument("--gtf", type=str, help="GTF file")
+    parser.add_argument("--quants", type=str, help="output of quantification")
+    parser.add_argument("--id", type=str, help="gene id in the gtf file")
+    parser.add_argument("--extra", type=str, help="extra id in the gtf file")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-o",
+        "--output",
+        dest="output",
+        default="tx2gene.tsv",
+        type=str,
+        help="file with output",
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    tx2gene(args.quant_type, args.gtf, args.quants, args.id, args.extra, args.output)