You can now retrieve genome data using the NCBI Datasets command-line tool and API by simply providing a BioProject accession. You can go directly from a BioProject accession to genome data even when the BioProject accession is the parent of multiple BioProjects (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Command-lines using BioProject accessions with the datasets command-line tool and sample metadata. Top panel: command-line for downloading genome metadata for the Sanger 25 Genomes Project (PRJEB33226). Middle panel: a portion of the metadata in JSON format for the 25 Genomes Project. Bottom panel: command-line for downloading sequence data and annotation metadata for a component BioProject for the king scallop (PRJEB35331). Continue reading “Retrieve genome data by BioProject using the Datasets command-line tool”