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The NCBI SRA ( Sequence Read Archive )


Contact: sra-tools@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/std

The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and
libraries for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.

With this release, NCBI has implemented Automatic Remote Access by accession,
making it possible to access data using NCBI servers without prior download.

For additional information on using and building the toolkit,
please visit our web site at:

    "http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/std"


SRA Toolkit Development Team