Download all animal genomes in RefSeq
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Can anyone explain me how to download all animal genomes stored in Ref seq in Fasta format?
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If you only wanted RefSeq genomes (as annotated by NCBI) then there are 1542 Eukaryotic ones as of today (total number of Eukaryotic genomes is over 27K+).
If you are able to define a specific "taxID" group that you are interested in then the list above can be further refined.
You can use the NCBI datasets tool to download sequence: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/datasets/ (an example shown in --> Automated way to pull representative/RefSeq genome using full species name? )
Then there are tools like genome_updater and ncbi-genome-download if you have accession numbers available.
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