On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Steve Lianoglou < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, kirti prakash > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sean and Martin, > > > > Thanks a lot for the clarification. > > > > Do you some other function now that converts SRA to fastq format ? > > You can do it via the sra toolkit. Some info and download link here: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47540/ > > > I wonder how much space NCBI saves by deleting fastq files and what is > extra > > advantage of having of SRA files. > > Run the (I believe) fastq-dump tool to convert to FASTQ and see for > yourself ;-) > > It's weird -- I have a set of *.fastq.gz files for a set of *.sra > files, and the corresponding *.fastq.gz files seem to actually be > smaller! > > The SRA files can contain more information than just fastq, I believe. See the discussion in the handbook on .lite.sra files. Sean [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-sig-sequencing mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-sig-sequencing
