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Unblocking the Aspera plug-in. When globaledit does not recognize aspera, your uploads and downloads may not initiate, a pop-up window may not occur, or the upload dialogue box will display this message at the bottom: Chrome. NOTE: Chrome Plugins are no longer support as of Chrome version 57. The IBM Aspera Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a lightweight shell scripting tool that be used to automate Faspex and Shares tasks without having to do additional coding. The CLI is for users and organizations that want to automate their transfer workflows; it provides an alternative to using the API for the same functionality.

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IBM® Aspera® software supports upgrades against the two most recent versions of a release. If you submit a ticket for a product that precedes the two most recent versions, you’ll be referred to IBM professional services for upgrade assistance.

Aspera Connect helps you securely move files and folders of any size. Connect is an install-on-demand Web browser plug-in that facilitates high-speed uploads and downloads with an Aspera transfer server. Depending on your operating system, Connect is compatible with most standard browsers.

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Due to Aspera license limitations, users have to install the software under their home to user the software.

Log on to O2

If you need help connecting to O2, please review the Using Slurm Basic wiki page.

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From Windows, use the graphical PuTTY program to connect to o2.hms.harvard.edu and make sure the port is set to the default value of 22.

From a Mac Terminal, use the ssh command, inserting your eCommons ID instead of user123:

Start interactive job, and create working folder

For example, for user abc123, the working directory will be

Download aspera and install it. You only need to do this once.

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Use sratoolkit prefetch, which tries ascp then http, to download sra data, then convert the data from .sra to .fastq format

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Additional tips:

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  1. If you need download a lot of data, run screen command before starting interactive job, to keep the session alive:
    screen: Keep Linux Sessions Alive (so you can go back to the same terminal window from anywhere, anytime)
  2. If you a lot of samples to download, running prefetch command one by one is a lot of work. To automate the process, you can find the accession IDs from the website and put them in a loop to download one by one. For example to download SRR6519510 to SRR6519519:
    for i in {6519510..6519519}; do
    prefetch SRR$i;
    done
  3. If you have more than a dozens of samples to download, running one by one needs lot of time. You can run them in parallel, For example you submit 5 jobs, let each job work on 100 accession IDs. Because these 5 jobs share the same network from O2 to NCBI cloud, these parallel prefetch commands will run slower than in serial mode. Not sure how much slower. Please share your experience.
  4. Let us know if you have any questions.