[Bioc-sig-seq] retrieving from SRA using fasp:

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

I routinely use their ftp server. In general the SRA is a complete  
mess (they might have cleaned up their act, I recently got some emails  
answering some old complaints I had).

Kasper

On Apr 13, 2009, at 13:33 , Vincent Carey wrote:

> 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://
> anonftp at ftp-private.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: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?
>
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