Kai Blin

Thanks for the report!

Hi @tseemann, finally having some time to look at this. I'm beginning to feel like this works as intended ™️. If there are multiple assemblies for a strain, the strain...

I deliberately left this out in the initial version because I needed some more time to think about the naming scheme there. And as "naming things" is one of the...

IIRC, rsync still doesn't do parallel transfers. Don't know the other tool.

Hi Andrew, I'll get back to you a next week, as I'm currently out of office. But sure, I'm happy to join forces. Let's see what features are still missing...

Yeah, I think generating a list of things to `rsync`and using the `--files-from` parameter would be the way to go if rsync support is what is desired. I personally have...

That said, can we move the discussion of alternative download strategies into a different issue? I'd like to keep this one about human-readable file names.

Sorry, this didn't bubble up far enough on my todo list yet. Would the naming scheme suggested by @andrewsanchez work for you?

The reason I went for the deep nesting we have right now is that there's hundreds of E. coli genomes, and with the flat scheme they would all end up...

The main thing that comes to mind is that right now there's 127 plant assemblies, 333 fungal assemblies, 1,157 archaeal assemblies, and 200,357 bacterial assemblies in RefSeq. So there are...