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Link Sequencing project accession number to published paper

Is there a way to find the paper or papers that were published with data from a submitted sequencing project in SRA or ENA?

I downloaded some sequences but I cannot for the life of me remember the paper I got it from (very stupid of me) I have done some analysis and I would like to compare it to their findings.

ena sra

Was that successful? If not check the fastq headers. These might contain the accession number and this should link to some NCBI entries with the reference.

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Using Entrezdirect (example replace your own SRA#):

$ esearch -db sra -query  SRR1448774 | elink -target pubmed | esummary | xtract -pattern DocumentSummary -element FullJournalName,ELocationID
Genome research doi: 10.1101/gr.181883.114

This is the output I get. Even when with the same ID in your code.

curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL ERROR: curl command failed ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:22 GMT 2022 ) with: 3 https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?query_key=1&WebEnv=MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e&retstart=0&retmax=1&db=sra&rettype=uilist&retmode=text&tool=edirect&edirect=16.2&edirect_os=Linux&email=%%20has%20address%20 WARNING: FAILURE ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:22 GMT 2022 ) nquire -get https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/ esearch.fcgi -query_key 1 -WebEnv MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e -retstart 0 -retmax 1 -db sra -rettype uilist -retmode text -tool edirect -edirect 16.2 -edirect_os Linux -email "@ has address EMPTY RESULT

SECOND ATTEMPT curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL ERROR: curl command failed ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:24 GMT 2022 ) with: 3 https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?query_key=1&WebEnv=MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e&retstart=0&retmax=1&db=sra&rettype=uilist&retmode=text&tool=edirect&edirect=16.2&edirect_os=Linux&email=%%20has%20address%20 WARNING: FAILURE ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:23 GMT 2022 )

nquire -get https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/ esearch.fcgi -query_key 1 -WebEnv MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e -retstart 0 -retmax 1 -db sra -rettype uilist -retmode text -tool edirect -edirect 16.2 -edirect_os Linux -email "@ has address agmay" EMPTY RESULT

LAST ATTEMPT curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL ERROR: curl command failed ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:25 GMT 2022 ) with: 3 https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?query_key=1&WebEnv=MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e&retstart=0&retmax=1&db=sra&rettype=uilist&retmode=text&tool=edirect&edirect=16.2&edirect_os=Linux&email=%%20has%20address%20 ERROR: FAILURE ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:25 GMT 2022 )

nquire -get https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/ esearch.fcgi -query_key 1 -WebEnv MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e -retstart 0 -retmax 1 -db sra -rettype uilist -retmode text -tool edirect -edirect 16.2 -edirect_os Linux -email "@ has address agmay" EMPTY RESULT

QUERY FAILURE curl: (3) URL using bad/illegal format or missing URL ERROR: curl command failed ( Wed 13 Jul 16:03:27 GMT 2022 ) with: 3 https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?query_key=1&WebEnv=MCID_62ceecc944e839595d19905e&retstart=0&retmax=1&db=sra&rettype=uilist&retmode=text&tool=edirect&edirect=16.2&edirect_os=Linux&email=%%20has%20address%20 ERROR: ELink failure ERROR: Missing -db argument

How did you install Entrezdirect? Using conda or otherwise? This looks like a local failure of some sort on your side.

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