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How to generate .sra files from Fastq

I have been downloading a lot of NCBI short read archive files (.sra files) and I know how to convert them to bam, sam, fastq, etc but is there a way to generate my own .sra files? The tools in the SRA toolkit do not seem to convert to .sra

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updated by Ram Ram • written by ktsuttlemyre • ktsuttlemyre

Out of curiosity: what would you like to do with *.sra files when you already have the *.bam/*.sam/*.fastq files?

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written by polarise polarise

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I have never used it but Mothur has a command "make.sra".

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written by Pawel Szczesny Pawel Szczesny

You would use one of the X-load tools from the SRA toolkit, where X is bam, fastq, etc. Now why you would actually want to do this is beyond me. You're better off sticking to BAM and fastq, which are actually normal formats used by tools.

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

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