[BioRuby] SRA downloader

[Raoul Bonnal]

Hi Peter,
On 15/feb/2011, at 14.18, Peter Cock wrote:

> http://fungalgenomes.org/blog/2011/02/a-hyphaltip-get-a-bunch-of-sra-data/
thanks for the link.

Actually, DDBJ and EBI (ENA) have a repository for SRA datasets.
The question is? Do we need to support SRA or it's just a convenient way for providers to store data?

EBI seems to me more computer friendly than NIH site.

If more providers will switch to Aspera, there is a developer kit SDK http://www.asperasoft.com/en/products/fasp_SDK_9/fasp_SDK_9 that could be interesting to support.

Today I tested the download speed and it performs very well compared to normal ftp.

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Ra