# The NCBI SRA ( Sequence Read Archive )

### Contact:
email: sra@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

### Change Log
Please check the CHANGES.md file for change history.

## NCBI VDB
The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for
using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.

### Antivirus Warnings
Windows Defender and a few other anti-virus tools have recently been [falsely](https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/042af43fc1318b07a4411c1bea2ff7eed8efe07ca954685268ce42f8f818b10e/detection) warning about test-sra.exe.

We suggest verifying [MD5 checksums](https://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sdk/current/md5sum.txt) after downloading.

For additional information on using, configuring, and building the toolkit,
please visit our [wiki](https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools/wiki)
or our web site at [NCBI](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?view=toolkit_doc)


SRA Toolkit Development Team
