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sra-tools

A collection of tools and libraries for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives

  • SRA bioinformatics toolkit
  • CLI
  • BIOINFORMATICS
  • SEQUENCE ARCHIVE
  • Launchable
  • Runs in terminal
official+codex · reviewed · Jun 4, 2026 description in en

Description

Sequence Read Archive datasets can be downloaded, converted, and processed with the NCBI SRA Toolkit built from source. The package installs many commands, including `prefetch` and `fasterq-dump`, plus libraries and configuration files for INSDC archive access. It can download very large biological datasets and write large output trees, so storage, network, and controlled-access credentials need planning.

How to run

fasterq-dump

Commands: fasterq-dump

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