Dealing with Sequencing Read Archive/European Nucleotide Archive data
Get the Data aka Reads
Given you know the SRA accession, best is you go to the SRA Run Browser. Enter the accession and get the link(s) to the corresponding data, usually in SRA format. Another possibility is to go to the ENA
Get the Metadata
Go to the SRA Run Selector, enter the SRA accession and get the metadata displayed as webpage. The metadata can be extracted as tab-delimited file by pressing "RunInfo Table" button.
Written on February 4, 2015