.@NCBI has made all public SRA data available on the Google and Amazon cloud. Great, you might think, until you realize that in future, we all have to start paying for downloading and/or analyzing data. Case in point - GTEx v8 data is ~$10k to access.https://nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov/2019/09/24/biomedical-discovery-through-sra-and-the-cloud/ …
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i guess these are not either/or. We're working on live BIGSI. Should have 1 million genomes indexed within the next 2/3 weeks. Bit more work getting the service running, we're behind schedule with that.
For now... I'm pretty sure the future of SRA will be on Google Cloud and/or AWS. GTEx v8 is likely the only project for now, but probably serves as a pilot - and that data is only on the cloud (indexed by SRA, but you have to go via GCloud or AWS for the files).
