README.md in ncbi-blast-dbs-0.0.4 vs README.md in ncbi-blast-dbs-0.0.5
- old
+ new
@@ -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