How to convert fastq to sra?

Question

[ChillarAnand]

NCBI stores data in .sra format. We can download it and convert it into fastq format using `fastq-dump` from SRA toolkit. 

 

However I want to convert fastq files into sra format to save disk space. Any ideas how to convert fastq to sra?

[Sean Davis]

Related question:

A: How to generate .sra files from Fastq

And a SeqAnswers discussion:

http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61763

[frcamacho]

http://www.mothur.org/wiki/Make.sra

Mothur seems to have a Make.sra command that converts fastq to sra format.

[Sean Davis]

I think the original question was to convert fastq into .sra format, not fasta format, but perhaps I misunderstood.

[frcamacho]

Thanks Sean for the correction, I misunderstood the original question.

Answer 1

[DCGenomics]

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