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Retrieving data from SquiDBase

On the Browse Datasets page, you can explore all available datasets in SquiDBase. A useful feature is the 'Flow Cell Version' filter, which allows you to filter datasets based on the Nanopore chemistry used. For instance, if you're specifically interested in R10.4.1 data, simply select it from the filter, and only datasets that use this chemistry will be displayed.

Submissions page

The 'Browse Datasets' page in SquiDBase.

Manual download

Once you have identified which datasets, each accompanied by a unique SquiDBase (SQB) identifier, you can click on the identifier and a page specific to this dataset will open.

Each page, for example this entry SQB000004, will show an info field, a summary of the metadata, dataset sender details, and eventually the dataset files which are available for download. You can simply retrieve them by clicking the download button.

Download section

Download section of a SquiDBase entry.

About the data files

All raw data in SquiDBase is stored in the POD5 format, including legacy R9 data, which has been converted from FAST5 to POD5. Each POD5 file contains reads from a single species only.

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