How to download DNA sequence files with the extension .embl or .emb.

Question

[dpktiwari168]

Hello,

I was trying to download the DNA sequence file of some organisms with the file extension .embl or .emb. I tried to download it from EBI and ENA site but it's downloading that file in text or FASTA format. How could I download it?

Thanks Deep

[Joe]

You could download any of the former sequences and convert it.

Answer 1

[massa.kassa.sc3na]

Hi, you can do simple wget with url like this one

www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/A00145%26display%3Dtext

more info: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browse/data-retrieval-rest

if format like this is your desired format:

ID   A00145; SV 1; linear; unassigned RNA; PAT; MAM; 678 BP.
XX
AC   A00145;
XX
DT   22-MAR-1993 (Rel. 35, Created)
DT   14-APR-2005 (Rel. 83, Last updated, Version 3)
....

[dpktiwari168]

Thanks for your reply @massa.kassa.sc3na. I have gone through these pages and have seen this format but when I am trying to download it. That gets downloaded in txt format. I am trying to get in a .embl or .emb format. But it is not coming in that format.

Thanks Deep

[massa.kassa.sc3na]

Just change the extension form .txt to whatever you want. It is still the embl format and any correct parser should have no problem.