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BioDownloader is a program for downloading and/or updating
files from ftp/http servers. Numerous download applications are available commercially
and free of charge. BioDownloader has unique features that are specifically
designed to
deal with bioinformatics data files and servers. It is focused to work robustly with vast
amount
of data and very large file sets (~ 10,000 - 100,000). BioDownloader
has a very versatile selection of ways of retrieving
only the required files (file
masks, ls-lR parsing, recursive search, updates). The application has a built-in
tool for post-download file conversion and processing. The program has multiple-task functionality:
BioDownloader is capable of processing several download or update tasks simultaneously.
While it has a lot of fine-tuned features and sophisticated settings available in
the advanced mode, BioDownloader was aimed to have a very intuitive and user-friendly graphical interface allowing the user, who lacks network-specific knowledge, to learn the application step-by-step
starting with the basic mode. BioDownloader
is able to open/save download tasks and task lists. It easily handles multiple
users. Most importantly it has a built-in task repository to download and update the most commonly used bioinformatics databases in just several mouse clicks. |