igenome_download

Simple script to bulk download from Illumina’s iGenome

Features

• Configure which genomes you want to grab
• uses ftp modification time to determine if new version is available
• cleans up after itself by removing tar.gz files after extraction

To Use

• Look at the current genomes being downloaded by the script.
• Add and remove as you see fit
• copy script to base directory where you want the downloads to live
• run ./igenome_download.rb

Prerequisites

Tested with ruby 1.9.3

if using ruby 1.8, some tweaking might be necessary.