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Searching and Downloading Genome Data using NCBI Datasets

This session is part of Biodiversity Genomics Academy 2023

Thu 14 Sep, 17:00 UTC
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This session will use Gitpod so you will get the most out of it if you already have a Gitpod account and know how to launch a Gitpod workspace (instructions here)

Session Leader(s)

Nuala O'Leary
Mirian T. N. Tsuchiya
Eric Cox

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Description

By the end of this session you will be able to:

  1. How to find and download assembled genomes and related data on the web using NCBI Datasets
  2. How to find and download assembled genomes and related data using NCBI Datasets command-line tools

Session Materials

Prerequisites

  1. Understanding the terms genome assembly, reads, contigs
  2. Some familiarity with the linux command-line interface

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