Hello Vincent, I tried to try the Aspera Firefox plug-in. I can describe the experience in a single word: obnoxious.
At the moment, it seems that command line guys like us will have to stick to good old ftp(*). To use your example, if you want fasp:// [email protected]:22/sra/static/SRX000/SRX000571/SRR002321.fastq.gz you can get it like this wget wget ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/static/SRX000/SRX000571/SRR002321.fastq.gz (*) this file is 2.7GB and it downloaded in ~4 minutes. You may call this bad old ftp depending on your expectations. I hope somebody proves me wrong with Aspera. Ivan ________________________________ From: Vincent Carey <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 13 April, 2009 16:33:02 Subject: [Bioc-sig-seq] retrieving from SRA using fasp: it seems that SRA is using the fasp: protocol to deliver data, at, say http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?cmd=show&f=faspftp_experiments&m=downloads&s=experiments for example: fasp:// [email protected]:22/sra/static/SRX000/SRX000571/SRR002321.fastq.gz there is an aspera plugin for firefox that works, but it would be nice to run from the command line. there seems to be something coming out of aspera, asperawebget, but it is not clear how to obtain it. i don't want to request a trial version/be contacted by a salesperson. anyone get around this? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing
