How to Access SRA Data on Google Cloud Platform

Published: 01 March 2020
on channel: National Library of Medicine

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UPDATE March 14, 2024: SRA recommends setting the Region to, us-east1 (South Carolina).
See the video position, 1:34.

This is a brief tutorial on how to establish a virtual machine instance on Google Cloud Platform, then install, configure, and test the SRA Toolkit within your instance. The emphasis is on the SRA Toolkit, not on the details of launching and connecting to an instance.

More detail about the SRA Toolkit:
https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki

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