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Hi @Dhwani_Dholakia ,

You are attempting to download all bacterial sequences in the nucleotide database... it is an extraordinarily large query, consisting of 71,204,621 entries... so it is not a surprise that the job gets killed.

Please also read carefully the help documentation (type qiime rescript get-ncbi-data --help to view this), particularly this part:

  Please be aware of the NCBI Disclaimer and Copyright notice
  (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/), particularly "run
  retrieval scripts on weekends or between 9 pm and 5 am Eastern Time
  weekdays for any series of more than 100 requests". As a rough guide, if
  you are downloading more than 125,000 sequences, only run this method at
  those times.

If you are interested in bacterial 16S sequences specifically, see this tutorial:

Good luck!

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