Downloading all bacterial genomes

Download a list of all bacterial genomes

Get the most current directory structure (WITHOUT contents) of the ncbi server.

This can be done EITHER by running

“wget -r –no-remove-listing –spider ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/Bacteria”

(WARNING will take a LONG time) OR (more comfortably and faster) by logging in to the ncbi ftp server with Filezilla, going to the “/genomes/Bacteria” subfolder, marking all Subfolders, rightclicking and choose “Copy URLS do Clipboard”. Then pasting the URLS to a text file.