diff --git a/modules/seq/base/doc/seq.rst b/modules/seq/base/doc/seq.rst
index 64ac6d3a7d974446f95657f30748d3ddc508f325..e84cfe6747c627a07f7c756eb26397ce95e1598d 100644
--- a/modules/seq/base/doc/seq.rst
+++ b/modules/seq/base/doc/seq.rst
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ methods, sequences can also be loaded from a string:
 
   seq_string='''>sequence
   abcdefghiklmnop'''
-  s=io.LoadSequenceFromString(seq_string, 'fasta')
+  s=io.SequenceFromString(seq_string, 'fasta')
   print s.name, s # will print "sequence abcdefghiklmnop"
   
 Note that, in that case specifying the format is mandatory.