[Geuvadis_rna_analysis] Aspera file transfer protocol

Hello, Thanks to EBI and UNIGE technical support teams and to Tuuli now we can use much faster file transfer protocol called Aspera. Aspera is a commercial file transfer protocol that provides better transfer speeds than ftp over long distances. Aspera ascp command line client can be downloaded from here: http://www.asperasoft.com/download_connect/. For instance, if you have Unix/Linux: - you will get aspera-connect-2.4.7.37118-linux-32.sh - run "sh aspera-connect-2.4.7.37118-linux-32.sh" in your terminal - command line client for Aspera will be installed here: "~/.aspera/connect/bin/ascp"; you can add "/.aspera/connect/bin/" to your PATH environment variable if you would like to run just "aspr" in command line - to transfer from local SOURCE to TARGET at EBI at a rate of 100M do: ~/.aspera/connect/bin/ascp -QT -l 100M SOURCE geuvadis@ah01.ebi.ac.uk:TARGET For instance: ~/.aspera/connect/bin/ascp -QT -l 100M /my_local_dir/chr*_ALL.impute2.vcf.gz geuvadis@ah01.ebi.ac.uk:/upload/geuvadis/wp4_rnaseq/main_project/external_data/genetic_variation/genotype/imputation_results/ - you will be asked for password - it is same as for ftp site. - to transfer from EBI SOURCE to local TARGET at 150M do: ~/.aspera/connect/bin/ascp -QT -l 150M geuvadis@ah01.ebi.ac.uk:SOURCE TARGET Please let me know if you have any problems/questions concerning Aspera usage. Regards, Natalja