Human microbiome project file download

Question

[zvjox]

Hi all,

I'm downloading a bunch of stool metagenomes from iHMP. Can anyone explain this:

There's a bunch of these files with the same name, but different file sizes listed. When I download them, they are exactly the same. Why are they listed seperately?

Thanks

[GenoMax]

It seems that these samples have unique UUID's so there must be a significance as to why there are 4 of these files that seem to be same/similar. You will need to investigate that using the UUID's to trace their origins.

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

Welcome to bioinformatics

what you observe is the net effect of people designing software interfaces way past their capabilities and realities.

I would just move on, there will be much more taxing things to troubleshoot, not worth spending time here.