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Revision as of 16:13, 21 June 2017
Introduction
It's probably the fastest way of downloading SRA files from the Short Read Archive. It's considerbaly faster than using 'fastq-dump in its download mode (note that fastq-dump will still be required to convert the SRA files into fastq.gz files.
It's a semicommercial tool, owned by IBM, but via the NCBI website it's possible to get a free version.
Where to get it
- here (via NCBI's page).
