franciscozorrilla / metaGEM

:gem: An easy-to-use workflow for generating context specific genome-scale metabolic models and predicting metabolic interactions within microbial communities directly from metagenomic data
https://franciscozorrilla.github.io/metaGEM/
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feat: Add optional feature to automate download of user-defined dataset #51

Closed franciscozorrilla closed 2 years ago

franciscozorrilla commented 3 years ago

metaGEM presently expects the users to have already downloaded their dateset, this can be a hurdle.

It could be useful for users to have the option to download a dataset based on an SRR ID list using fasterq-dump as described here.

Note also that users could also easily modify the downloadToy rule to download a dataset of interest. However, this requires a list of links to the individual files, which may prove cumbersome to generate.