Unfortunately, I'm not aware of an easy answer to this question.

There have been many changes to how JGI/IMG handle data which is largely due to the issues with storing a ton of data. What was an effort to store a lot of analyses and other genome sequencing projects (not done at JGI) has resulted in recently moving to just storing raw data sequenced by JGI. I'm unclear what is available and what is not available now -- maybe someone can clear this up for me. There are a few different FTP servers (for JGI, IMG, IMG/M, etc.) and, from my understanding, they all have some level of redundancy and unique data on them. I haven't tried the API for all platforms. I have recently been using globus to query/transfer data from JGI FTPs with pretty good success.

The link provided by marina.v.yurieva doesn't really give you any context on what is happening at IMG and there have been a lot of changes in the last two years since that comment was made.

I'm not currently clear if the API tool provided by JGI works for JGI's IMG also see here for more information.

This biostars question (Get Ncrna Genes In Fasta Format From Img Database) is a little old, but it may help you with how to proceed. Let us know if you have any luck.

Hello,

I hope your problem was solved long ago!

I recently found a way for myself, so may be its useful to someone. 1. From IMG, one can download all information as an excel file, and you can ask for NCBI taxonid to be included. I found the NCBI taxon id to be the only link consistently reported for IMG data. 2. From the NCBI ftp site, one can get a file (something like assembly_summary.csv) with similar details which also includes the NCBI taxon id and a link to the folder of the particular genome on the ftp server. 3. From there, you can download all the information that NCBI has about the genome.

In summary, IMG id -> NCBI taxon id -> NCBI ftp server link -> NCBI information.

This may be useful for NCBI- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/doc/ftpfaq/#howtofind

Saurabh

This post is quite old, but in case anyone is looking for a way to download JGI data, there is a link http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/help/download.jsf go to download with globus