diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php b/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
index 9c0896456e78c466642c727a41462969360be13d..629cb23a4a299d8821fa9fcf689493f7c2bdd084 100755
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/lib/Seq.php
@@ -151,7 +151,9 @@ function update_blastdb_dnafeatures($storagedir){
           $dnafeaturesfasta = $storagedir . "dnafeatures.fasta";
           $FastaFile = fopen($dnafeaturesfasta, 'w');
           foreach ($dnafeatures as $dnafeature) {
-              $extendedname = $dnafeature->name . "_FEATCAT_" . $dnafeature->category;
+              // remove white spaces from name
+              $namenospace =  str_replace(" ", "", $dnafeature->name);
+              $extendedname = $namenospace . "_FEATCAT_" . $dnafeature->category;
               fwrite($FastaFile, ">$extendedname\n");
               $toprint = Convert2Fasta($dnafeature->sequence);
               for ($i=0; $i< count($toprint); $i++) {