Complete Guide: Installing parallel-fastq-dump on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) 2024

1. Install "parallel-fastq-dump" package

Please follow the instructions below to install parallel-fastq-dump on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "parallel-fastq-dump" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall parallel-fastq-dump on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the parallel-fastq-dump package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: parallel-fastq-dump
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.6-3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 22
Depends: python3:any, sra-toolkit
Filename: pool/universe/p/parallel-fastq-dump/parallel-fastq-dump_0.6.6-3_amd64.deb
Size: 4808
MD5sum: bd4aac3c9d85ab99d1b5d6fac0fd3724
SHA1: b8b1bf807ed92ed2881aff1e704d8f7bf214100f
SHA256: 3b903cc5bc688186e908a755cdff13ed3e2c3ca91f3ce5524e42a0331b31ab48
SHA512: 015a9516f1b445a42397c4cb0b67211dd2751d7e2cf120b8c8ee09f4ad062e882074ca085a72471d4cf96798483ee3aca3a68aa77740430b8dfe402c6ce1dfc6
Homepage: https://github.com/rvalieris/parallel-fastq-dump
Description-en: parallel fastq-dump wrapper
NCBI fastq-dump can be very slow sometimes, even if you have the
resources (network, IO, CPU) to go faster, even if you already
downloaded the sra file (see the protip below). This tool speeds up the
process by dividing the work into multiple threads.
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This is possible because fastq-dump have options (-N and -X) to query
specific ranges of the sra file, this tool works by dividing the work
into the requested number of threads, running multiple fastq-dump in
parallel and concatenating the results back together, as if you had just
executed a plain fastq-dump call.
Description-md5: 11222a9a5daf56c6d715715d83ee438e