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The NCBI SRA ( Sequence Read Archive )


Contact: sra-tools@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
http://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/std

About configuration-assistant:

  configuration-assistant.perl will help you to configure the SRA tools to be able
  to access the local reference repository and to download the correct references
  for a given cSRA file.

To run configuration-assistant on Linux or Mac:
  - open a shell
  - change directory to the folder where you extracted the toolkit (cd .../sratoolkit...),
  - type 'perl configuration-assistant.perl' (without the quotation marks).


To run configuration-assistant on Windows:

  - open Command Prompt (Start->Run->cmd.exe),
  - change directory to the folder where you extracted the toolkit (cd ...\sratoolkit.x.x.x-win64),
  - type 'perl configuration-assistant.perl' (without the quotation marks).


If the following message shows up:

  "'perl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
    operable program or batch file."

that means perl is not installed or not installed properly.

Download Perl at ActiveState.com (http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads)
