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ena-download

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By ssinder/bioinformatics-agent-skills (GitHub) · research · 75 stars · scanned at commit 42cf1a9

Downloads RNA-seq and other sequencing FASTQ data from the ENA (European Nucleotide Archive) Portal API and exports run-level metadata. Resolves download URLs and file sizes from the structured API rather than scraping archive web pages, supports batch accession lists, HTTP Range resume for interrupted transfers, and MD5 verification against the checksums ENA publishes. This skill should be used when fetching raw sequencing reads by SRA/ERR/DRR accession, retrieving FASTQ files for an RNA-seq p…

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What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ena-download' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ena-download' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ena-download already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ssinder/bioinformatics-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '42cf1a9c2381b25047dae98ca944ee7b52781ed8' -- 'skills/ena-download' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/ena-download' ~/.agents/skills/'ena-download' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ena-download' ~/.claude/skills/'ena-download' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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