SRA data in pileup format

[savkart]

Hello all,

I'm trying to use the first pileup file the below link points to:

http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?study=SRP004059

It doesn't look like a regular pileup file- seems to be a binary file and I'm not too sure how to uncompress it.

I've looked around online and at all the sratollkit utilties but can't seem to find a tool to dump data from a binary pileup format.

If someone could give me pointers about what exactly this format is, or how to convert it to a vcf/ any human readable format, that would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Savita