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The process of downloading data from the internet.

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What's the best way to download data from the SRA? Is it really this slow?

I'm trying to download three WGS datasets from the SRA that are each between 60 and 100GB in size. So far I've tried: Fetching the .sra files directly from NCBI's ftp site Fetching the .sra files ...
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How to download ligands for PDB structure

I have some PDB IDs and for every structure, I need all its ligands, so I want to automate the process. The ligands are different for every chain: ...
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Trying to download a large number of files from ENA programmatically

I am downloading a large number of files from the ENA in Python using Multithreading. As an example, to be more concrete, I tried downloading 12 files simultaneously using 12 threads. I noticed that ...
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