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How can I quickly download all available sequence data for a long list of organisms?

I have a list of ~200 bacterial species names and I would like to download all of the available sequences for each species in FASTA format.

Is there a way of automating this process?

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wget ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria/all.*

Although maybe you just want the fna or faa file. Check the summary file too..

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