[QUESTION] ascp support

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[QUESTION] ascp support

alienzj opened this issue a year ago · comments

It seems fastq-dl doesn't support ascp download, right ?
I think supporting ascp is quite good feature.
Can you add it back ?

Thanks a lot!

Robert A. Petit III · Answer 1 · Fri Apr 28 2023 05:28:08 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi @alienzj

For now, unfortunately I'm going to keep ASCP out of v2+. Right now, aspera-connect is only available from personal conda channels (mine from ~4 years ago, and another from ~6 years ago). If aspera-connect is added to bioconda or conda-forge, which will be difficult due to licensing, then I can reconsider adding it back to fastq-dl.

If you would like to use aspera, you can try v1.1.1. I think the following would work.

conda create -n fastq-dl-ascp -c rpetit3 -c conda-forge -c bioconda aspera-connect 'fastq-dl=1.1.1'

I hope this ok!

Cheers,
Robert

Jie Zhu · Answer 2 · Sun Apr 30 2023 19:06:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, @rpetit3

Thanks for your suggestion.
It is a good way to use fastq-dl and ASCP.

Thanks again!

Robert A. Petit III · Answer 3 · Wed May 03 2023 16:49:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

No problem!

Going to go ahead and close this. PLease feel free to reopen it

Mattias de Hollander · Answer 4 · Tue Jan 16 2024 00:34:43 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For now, unfortunately I'm going to keep ASCP out of v2+. Right now, aspera-connect is only available from personal conda channels (mine from ~4 years ago, and another from ~6 years ago). If aspera-connect is added to bioconda or conda-forge, which will be difficult due to licensing, then I can reconsider adding it back to fastq-dl.

@rpetit3 FYI: The aspera-cli tool has been packaged for bioconda in October 2023: https://github.com/bioconda/bioconda-recipes/blob/master/recipes/aspera-cli/meta.yaml This package also installs the ascp binary. With that, would it be possible to bring back aspera support?