SRA

During the Introduction to Metagenomics Summer Workshop we discussed denoising amplicon sequence variants and worked through Ben Callahan’s DADA2 tutorial. During that session, I mentioned several other approaches and algorithms for denoising or clustering amplicon sequence data including UNOISE3, DeBlur and Mothur.

A collaborator recently asked if I could help pull down a few thousand sequence files from the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) for a secondary analysis. This is a short post primarily to help me (and hopefully others) remember how to do this once you have a set of SRR IDs of interest.