README.md in ncbi-blast-dbs-0.0.4 vs README.md in ncbi-blast-dbs-0.0.5

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@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ ## Fast download BLAST databases from NCBI Database files (volumes) are downloaded in parallel: number of threads to use -is determined automatically. MD5 checksum is verified and the database files -extracted upon download. Database volumes are not downloaded in a particular -order. Downloads are incremental, that is it will only download new data, -provided the `.tar.gz` files have not been deleted. +is determined automatically. MD5 checksum is verified and the database volume +extracted upon download. Database volumes are not downloaded in a particular +order. The volumes are updated if a newer version is available on the server, +or re-downloaded if corrupt. Aborted downloads are safely resumed. -It is faster than NCBI's `update_blastdb.pl`. But unlike `update_blastdb.pl`, -which is a pure Perl script, it delegates download and checksum verification -to `wget` and `md5sum` and is thus not as universal. +`ncbi-blast-dbs` is faster than NCBI's `update_blastdb.pl`. But unlike +`update_blastdb.pl`, which is a pure Perl script, `ncbi-blast-dbs` delegates +download and checksum verification to `wget` and `md5sum` and is thus not as +universal. ### Installation gem install ncbi-blast-dbs @@ -20,10 +21,15 @@ ncbi-blast-dbs #### Download all volumes of a BLAST database - ncbi-blast-dbs nr + ncbi-blast-dbs nt nr + +Databases are downloaded one after the other while volumes of each database +are downloaded in parallel. + + ncbi-blast-dbs nt nr NCBI expects users to submit their email address when downloading data from their FTP server. To comply with that, download as: email="my email address here" ncbi-blast-dbs nr