Speed-up download from PRIDE

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Dear all,

we are willing to reanalyze several rather big datasets published in PRIDE. Unfortunately, the regular FTP download option is painfully slow (i.e. expected time to download is about a week). Is there any way to speed up the process? Thank you for your suggestions.

Best regards,

Vladimir

[dtabb1973]

I see that PRIDE supports Aspera protocol.  If that's still true, it's likely to be a substantial speed-up over FTP.  Many institutions have problems with Aspera transfers, though, since it frequently conflicts with the ports available for use in institutional firewalls.

Good luck,

Dave