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how i can use SRA accession Number to call raw reads ?

i have project to align 2 genome . Generated the reference index: bwa index reference.fa Then i want to align the reads to the reference index bwa mem reference.fa reads1.fq reads2.fq > aligned_pairs.sam To download the reads for the second genome , i use the genome deposit SRA accession number to download from ENA . the page present option : FASTQ files (FTP) NCBI SRA file (FTP file1 file1 file2 SRA accession number SRR1779159 which one should be used ?

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/SRR1779159

genome alignment

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Both the options (FASTQ files FTP and NCBI SRA file FTP) can be used. Its the same file.

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