We recommend that you download data via rsync using the command line, especially for large files using the North American or European download servers.
-For example, when downloading ENCODE files to your present directory (./), use an expression such +For example, when downloading files to your present directory (./), use an expression such as:
rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/unipAliTrembl.bb ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/unipAliTrembl.bb ./To download the entire directory (note the trailing slash), use an expression such as:
rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/ ./rsync -a -P rsync://hgdownload-euro.soe.ucsc.edu/gbdb/hg38/uniprot/ ./To obtain a file's location (URL) to use with 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.