Sequence Read Archive downloads and Aspera

[iquigley]

Hello! I am a postdoc at the Salk Institute and starting to get my feet wet in this arena. As an early exercise, I've been trying to start with raw .sra or fastq files and basically run them through the pipeline, sort of as homework to teach myself the methods before doing sequencing on my own. However, an early stumbling block is that SRA seems to insist on using the latest version of Aspera (2.6), which the company itself claims is only available on PC platforms. Can you really only download .sra files from NCBI on a Microsoft machine?

Many thanks for any input!

[Richard Finney]

It works fine with older versions (for now) on Linux.

[vadim]

Strange, they do have Aspera server version 2.7 for Linux:

> ascp --version
Aspera Enterprise Server version 2.7.1.34786
ascp version 2.7.0.34752
Operating System: Linux
FIPS 140-2-validated crypto ready to configure
License max rate=(unlimited), account no.=1, license no.=1

[HZAU_xf]

My aspera always report"ascp:failed to build sourcelist, exiting". Where is wrong

[carlos]

My aspera always report"ascp:failed to build sourcelist, exiting". Where is wrong

does it lack the destination folder?