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Human microbiome project file download

Hi all,

I'm downloading a bunch of stool metagenomes from iHMP. Can anyone explain this:

Screenshot from the Human Metagenome Project data center

There's a bunch of these files with the same name, but different file sizes listed. When I download them, they are exactly the same. Why are they listed seperately?

Thanks

hmp metagenomics

It seems that samplesthese samples have unique UUID's so there must be a significance as to why there are 4 of these files that seem to be same/similar. You will need to investigate that using the UUID's to trace their origins.

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Welcome to bioinformatics

what you observe is the net effect of people designing software interfaces way past their capabilities and realities.

I would just move on, there will be much more taxing things to troubleshoot, not worth spending time here.

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