We recommend that you download data via rsync using the command line, especially for large -files.
+files using the North American or European download servers.For example, when downloading ENCODE files to your present directory (./), use an expression such as:
-$ rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/wgEncodeFile ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/wgEncodeFile ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/wgEncodeFile ./To download the entire directory (note the trailing slash), use an expression such as:
-$ rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/ ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/ ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/encodeDCC/wgEncodeDir/ ./To obtain a file's location (URL) to use with -rsync (rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/...), navigate in your browser to our FTP site at +rsync (rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/... or +rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/...), navigate in your browser to our FTP site at ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/ or our downloads page at http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html, and look for your file of interest. To learn more about rsync's options, type "man rsync" on the command line.
If you are not comfortable using the command line, you can download your file via FTP in your browser at ftp://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath, or from our downloads page at http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/downloads.html.
However, downloading via your browser will be very slow or may even time out for large files (i.e., bigBed, bigWig, BAM, VCF, etc.). Also, Safari does not support FTP inside the browser. When you