Retrieving assembly scaffold length information without downloading the sequence?

Question

[DNAlias]

What is the easiest way to obtain a list of the lengths of all scaffolds in an assembly without downloading the sequence?

[lieven.sterck]

you will need to provide more details if you want to receive valuable answers. Eg. which assembly? where are you 'downloading' it from?

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[GenoMax]

I assume you are referring to data in NCBI?

By checking the assembly report. Here is a random example from NCBI. Click on the Assembly Statistics to see the information you want.