NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader

Description:

This program will download sequences en masse from several NCBI databases (at the user's choice). After the downloading is finished, the program will check the resulting file for any missing sequences and continuously retry the download until all sequences are present in the local file.

NCBI Data Usage Policies and Disclaimers may apply to downloaded data.

Documentation:

The complete manual can be found on readthedocs.org.

Citation:

If you use NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader in your research, please cite the following paper:

Pina-Martins, F., & Paulo, O. S. (2016). NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader–Large dataset downloading made easy. SoftwareX, 5, 80–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2016.04.007

Dependencies:

• Python 3 (and the standard lib)
• Requests
• PyQt5 for the GUI version

License:

GPLv3

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