rescript get-ncbi-data

[SoilRotifer (Mike Robeson)]

Hi @laibinhuang,

The help text from qiime rescript get-ncbi-data --help should help answer that for you.

If you search the forum you'll come across the following helpful threads:

RESCRIPT error: Download did not finish. Reason unknown

@avtober, I forgot to mention that you should be aware that the help text also has other helpful information, e.g.: Please be aware of the NCBI Disclaimer and Copyright notice (Policies and Disclaimers - NCBI), 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… Which could also impact your abilit…

Error while getting plenty of data from NCBI

It looks like you figured this out as per: Your next error: can be problematic to figure out. There are many “out of our hands” reasons that fetching data from NCBI can fail: I’d suggest trying to add more selective terms to your query, or try to download in batches. This is a great place to start: Good luck!

-Cheers!
-Mike