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copick download project

utils

Download tilt series and alignments from the CryoET Data Portal.

Plugin command — copick-utils

This command is provided by the copick-utils plugin, not copick core. Install it to make this command available:

pip install copick-utils

See the plugin system guide for details.

Usage

copick download project [OPTIONS]

Description

Fetches the AreTomo files (the raw tilt series plus their alignment files) for every run in a CryoET Data Portal dataset and writes them to a local directory, laid out for sub-tomogram averaging with py2rely. Pass the numeric portal dataset ID via --dataset; all matching tilt series are downloaded in parallel into --output.

Options

Option Type Default Description
-ds, --dataset text required Dataset ID to download from the CryoET Data Portal.
-o, --output directory required Output directory to save the downloaded files.

Examples

# Download a dataset's tilt series and alignments into the current directory
copick download project -ds 10000 -o .

# Download into a dedicated output directory
copick download project --dataset 10445 --output ./aretomo_inputs

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