These series of workshops are those given to us in our bioinformatics class by Prof Lee Kozar, who is also the director of CMGM at Stanford!
Downloading files from the Internet using your Web browser
Start up your web browser and go to this URL
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov
Find the "gbrel.txt" file and look at it
This file contains the release information for the GenBank database.
Pay attention to the
Size (number of sequences, number of nucleotides, number of species)
Divisions (The database is not a single file, but a collection of files)
In the next class, we will analyze it more fully and learn how to download specific sequences.
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