Anything that can recursively handle an FTP connection would do, including most FTP clients...
Program For Retreiving Refseq Sequence
Hi,
Thanks in advance.I have to download the entire refseq files from NCBI.Is there any way to write a program for downloading these files ?
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If you're familiar with unix, have a look at those FTP/HTTP clients
- curl : http://curl.haxx.se/
- wget http://www.gnu.org/software/wget
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as your question is not strictly related to bioinformatics (it could be any kind of file), you can also submit your problem at http://superuser.com/
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wget -r ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/release -w 1
this will download the whole latest refseq release on the current directory, recursively. The -w option is recommended because it will lightens the load on ncbi's server.
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wget and curl are very good options. If you want something more user-friendly, DownloadThemAll is a nice Firefox extension.
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