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SRA file identifiers for use with sra-toolkit

Greetings,

I have been trying to download some Drosophila samples using the sra-toolkit. However, I am confused as to which identifier should be used each time. For example, the SRA for this sample appears to be DRX013093, however the sra toolkit cannot find it. Clicking on the SRA link will take me to the run page, with the identifier DRR014573. This time, the sra toolkit is able to download the file when given this ID.

My question is, why does the sra-toolkit not understand the first identifier, and is there a way to automate the retrieval of the second identifier?

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Not sure why it didn't work for you.

[user@desktop ~]$ prefetch DRX013093
2020-04-04T19:15:33 prefetch.2.9.2: 1) Downloading 'DRX013093'...
2020-04-04T19:15:33 prefetch.2.9.2:  Downloading via https...
2020-04-04T19:16:30 prefetch.2.9.2: 1) 'DRX013093' was downloaded successfully
[user@desktop ~]$ cd /tmp/
[user@desktop tmp]$ cd sra_test/
[user@desktop sra_test]$ ls
files  nannot  refseq  sra  test  wgs
[user@desktop sra_test]$ cd sra/
[user@desktop sra]$ ls
DRX013093.sra
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written by Arup Ghosh Arup Ghosh

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