Workshop: Learn the Best Way to Find Data in NIH’s Sequence Read Archive (SRA) On the Cloud

Description

This workshop will introduce you to powerful metadata searches for the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) by using interactive metadata queries in the cloud.

This service expands the search tools available for SRA and saves time by finding exactly the data you want more quickly than ever before.

We will discuss metadata searches in AWS and GCP using common database query methods and demonstrate how to use the metadata tables for searching. We’ll run through some hands-on exercises:

1. finding sequence data based on k-mer searches for specific taxonomic IDs and
2. filtering runs to find exactly what you want.

We will also provide demonstrations and examples to help you better understand how to build your own searches. We will be using Structured Query Language (SQL) to do these searches but no prior SQL experience is required. By the end of this workshop you will know how to run cloud metadata queries to find SRA data based on parameters that are of interest to you.