Sra-tools

Jul 20, 2023

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

SRA tools is a toolkit for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.

SRAs operated by International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration houses sequence reads and alignments generated by “next-gen” sequencers. SRA tools allows conversion of .sra files, which INSDC SRAs maintain, from/to other formats that the ‘next-gen’ sequenecers generate including

  • csfasta/csqual ABI SOLiD
  • fastq and fasta for writing
  • hdf5 PacBio, reading only
  • qseq older Illumina
  • sam writing only / bam reading only
  • sff

The toolkit uses NCBI-VDB back-end enabling seamless access to remote SRA data and local SRA files.



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