# sra-toolkit

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** sratoolkit
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158900/](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK158900/)

## Software Description

The SRA Toolkit will allow you to programmatically access data housed
within NCBI\'s Sequence Read Archive. You can also use the toolkit to
convert between many bioinformatics file formats and the SRA format.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load sratoolkit

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of sratoolkit available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail sratoolkit