sra-tools

NCBI's toolkit for handling data in INSDC Sequence Read Archives

The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for using data in the INSDC (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration) SRA (Sequence Read Archives). The SRA house sequence reads and alignments generated by DNA/RNA sequencers. The SRA Toolkit facilitates downloading sequence data, performing filtering and conversions on-the-fly, thus saving enormous amounts of time, bandwidth, and storage.