Category Archives: SRA Toolkit

19Oct / 2021

The Sequence Read Archive slims down your data with SRA Lite

In response to your requests for compact and faster-to-deliver data, NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) now offers a new data format – SRA Lite (Figure 1).  SRA Lite supports reliable and faster data transfer, downloads, and analysis using current tools. SRA Lite replaces the submitted base quality score (BQS) with a simplified read quality score, … Continue reading The Sequence Read Archive slims down your data with SRA Lite →

Posted by in DNA-Seq, Next-gen sequencing (NGS), RNA-Seq, Sequence Read Archive (SRA), SRA Toolkit, What's New

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06Aug / 2021

Aug 18 Webinar: Finding Data for your Research Organism: Plants and RNA-Seq data

Join us on August 18, 2021 at 12PM eastern time for the second webinar on finding data for your non-model research organism. In this webinar, you will learn how to use NCBI’s web resources to get data for a plant species, the black cottonwood. You will see how to find, access, and analyze gene and … Continue reading Aug 18 Webinar: Finding Data for your Research Organism: Plants and RNA-Seq data →

Posted by in Datasets, Gene Expression, genome assemblies, RNA-Seq, Sequence Read Archive (SRA), SRA Toolkit, webinars, What's New

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03Apr / 2020

SRA cloud sequences hold the promise of additional discoveries related to COVID-19

We recently announced that we made all of the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) publicly available on two cloud platforms. This archive of genetic sequences is a treasure trove of information and the cloud environments provide high-performance computing capabilities via a GCP or AWS account … Continue reading →

Posted by in cloud computing, covid 19, Genomics, metadata, Next-gen sequencing, SRA, SRA Toolkit, Viruses, What's New

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17Oct / 2019

Users of the SRA FTP site: Try the SRA Toolkit!

If you download data from the SRA (Sequence Read Archive) FTP site, we would encourage you to try the SRA Toolkit. This is particularly true if you use the SRA Fuse/FTP site at ftp://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sra-instant, which the SRA team will decommission … Continue reading →

Posted by in downloading data, Quick Tips, SRA, SRA Toolkit

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11Dec / 2015

SRA Toolkit: the SRA database at your fingertips

The Sequence Read Archive (SRA), NCBI’s largest growing repository of molecular data, archives raw sequencing data and alignment information from high-throughput sequencing platforms, including Roche 454 GS Systems®, Illumina’s Genome Analyzer®, and Complete Genomics® systems. Researchers commonly use SRA data … Continue reading →

Posted by in Quick Tips, Sequence Read Archive, SRA Toolkit

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