On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Steve Lianoglou <
mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:34 PM, kirti prakash
> <kirtiprakash3.14@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sean and Martin,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for the clarification.
> >
> > Do you some other function now that converts SRA to fastq format ?
>
> You can do it via the sra toolkit. Some info and download link here:
>
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47540/
>
> > I wonder how much space NCBI saves by deleting fastq files and what is
> extra
> > advantage of having of SRA files.
>
> Run the (I believe) fastq-dump tool to convert to FASTQ and see for
> yourself ;-)
>
> It's weird -- I have a set of *.fastq.gz files for a set of *.sra
> files, and the corresponding *.fastq.gz files seem to actually be
> smaller!
>
>
The SRA files can contain more information than just fastq, I believe.  See
the discussion in the handbook on .lite.sra files.

Sean

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