Icgc-get - Documentation

andricDu · February 13, 2017, 4:50pm

For anyone with questions or issues about icgc-get, you can refer to this user guide:
http://docs.icgc.org/cloud/icgc-get/

The project readme is also available here:

github.com

icgc/icgc-get/blob/develop/README.md

# icgc-get

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This is the `icgc-get` utility, a universal download client for accessing ICGC data residing in various data repositories. 

## Motivation

The data for ICGC resides in many data repositories around the world. These repositories 
each have their own environment (public cloud, private cloud, on-premise file systems, etc.), 
access controls (DACO, OAuth, asymmetric keys, IP filtering), download clients and configuration mechanisms. 
Thus, there is much for a user to learn and perform before actually acquiring the data. 
This is compounded by the fact that the number of environments are increasing over time 
and their characteristics are frequently changing. A coordinated mechanism to bootstrap and 
streamline this process is highly desirable. This is the problem the `icgc-get` tool helps to solve.

## Installation

To install `icgc-get` on your local machine, first download the `icgc-get` package, then unzip the executable.

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