NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader–Large dataset downloading made easy
F. Pina-Martins,
O.S. Paulo
Affiliations
F. Pina-Martins
Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Departamento de Biologia e CESAM, Univ. de Aveiro, Portugal; Corresponding author at: Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal.
O.S. Paulo
Computational Biology and Population Genomics Group, Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Sequence databases, such as NCBI, are a very important resource in many areas of science. Downloading small amounts of sequences to local storage can easily be performed using any recent web browser, but downloading tens of thousands of sequences is not as simple.NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader is an open source program aimed at simplifying obtaining large amounts of sequence data from NCBI databases to local storage. It is written in python (can be run under both python 2 and python 3), and uses PyQt5 for the GUI. The program can be run in either graphical or command line mode.Source code is licensed under the GPLv3, and is supported on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. Available at https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX/SOFTX-D-15-00072.git, https://github.com/StuntsPT/NCBI_Mass_Downloader Keywords: Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular evolution, BLAST
