Bulk downloads

The dataset hierarchy

There is no search API yet but a systematic way to download:

  1. http://cells.ucsc.edu/dataset.json contains the list of top-level datasets in the “datasets” attribute.

  2. every object in the “datasets” list is a child dataset, note the “name” attribute.

  3. every dataset has a <datasetname>/dataset.json file again, e.g. http://cells.ucsc.edu/adultPancreas/dataset.json

  4. datasets with a “datasets” attribute have children themselves, e.g. http://cells.ucsc.edu/xena/dataset.json

Rsync download

If you want to download all or selected datasets, use our rsync server. To download single dataset, for example, use this command, for ad-aging-brain:

rsync -avzp hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu::cells/ad-aging-brain/ ./

And the list all datasets available:

rsync hgdownload.gi.ucsc.edu::cells