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Background and external resources

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bash Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh

Install sra-tools

Once conda is installed in the instance. Go to https://anaconda.org and search for sra-tools. Copy and paste the command to install the tool in your HPC account:

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conda install -c bioconda sra-tools 

Download SRA filesSubmit

a Example: PBS script (launch_fetch_SRAfiles.pbs) to fetch multiple files from SRA filesdatabase

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#!/bin/bash -l
#PBS -N SRAfiles
#PBS -l walltime=2:00:00
#PBS -l mem=4gb
#PBS -l ncpus=2
#PBS -m bae
###PBS -M email@host
#PBS -j oe

cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR

### User defined SRA identifiers
SRAIDACCESSIONS=SRR1002659,SRR1002660,SRR1002661,SRR1002662

### Pipeline

#Step1: Download SRA file
prefetch ${SRAIDACCESSIONS}

#Step2: Extract FASTQ file(s) from SRA file
fastq-dump --split-files ${SRAID}ACCESSIONS}

submit PBS script to the HPC cluster

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qsub launch_fetch_SRAfiles.pbs

monitor job progression

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qjobs