Downloading data from BaseSpace

Aim:

Download sequencing data generated for your project from Illumina's BaseSpace to your HPC account/

Pre-requisites

• If you do not yet have an account at QUT’s HPC, apply for a new account here.

Additionally, we recommend users be familiar with the following topics:

• Installed conda3 or miniconda3 ( https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/install/linux.html )

• Basic unix command line knowledge (example: https://researchcomputing.princeton.edu/education/external-online-resources/linux ; https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/ )

• Familiarity with one unix text editors (example Vi/Vim or Nano):

  • VIM ( https://bioinformatics.uconn.edu/vim-guide/ ; https://missing.csail.mit.edu/2020/editors/)

  • Nano (https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/BasictutorialforNanou ; https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/42980/the-beginners-guide-to-nano-the-linux-command-line-text-editor/ )

Download the data from BaseSpace

• Create a BaseSpace account

• Ask for access to Project (having a link to the project should be enough) from the project owner.

Install BaseScapce Sequence Hub

source: https://developer.basespace.illumina.com/docs/content/documentation/cli/cli-overview

Log into QUT’s HPC using your account credentials (see above)

The run the following command:

wget "https://launch.basespace.illumina.com/CLI/latest/amd64-linux/bs" -O $HOME/bin/bs

then change the file permissions to make the downloaded binary executable:

$ chmod u+x $HOME/bin/bs

Authenticate the connection to BaseSpace server:

bs auth

Find the project ID for the data you are interested to download. For example, you can derive this from the url when logged into BaseSpace

NOTE: If you have not yet created a folder to store raw data, you can run for example the following command:

mkdir $HOME/data/

then you can create a subfolder for your project, for example:

mkdir $HOME/data/myProjectName/

Now you are ready to download the Fastq.gz files

 bs download project -i 357263934 -o $HOME/data/myProjectName/ --extension=fastq.gz