How to look up metadata for an SRR file

[olgabot]

Thanks to you, I am able to download all the SRA files associated with a project and convert them to FASTQ. My question is how can I get the metadata information, say for all the files under SRP011546 . Under GEO, there is a metadata file but all the identifiers are GEO-based, i.e. GSE36552 and the like. And there's no mapping of GEO to SRA ids (e.g. SRR490990 in this project). What I'd like to get is the equivalent of Title: "Oocyte #1" from GEO or Library name: GSM922167: 8-cell embryo#2 -Cell#6 from DNA Nexus Can the bionode-ncbi search function be used to find this information?

[olgabot]

nvm got it!!

bionode-ncbi search sra SRR490990

returns a big ole json that I can parse:

{u'createdate': u'2013/08/12',
 u'expxml': {u'Bioproject': u'SRP011546',
  u'Experiment': {u'acc': u'SRX144369',
   u'name': u'GSM922175: 8-cell embryo#3 -Cell#6; Homo sapiens; RNA-Seq',
   u'status': u'public',
   u'ver': u'1'},
  u'Instrument': {u'ILLUMINA': u'Illumina HiSeq 2000'},
  u'Library_descriptor': {u'LIBRARY_LAYOUT': {u'SINGLE': u''},
   u'LIBRARY_NAME': u'GSM922175: 8-cell embryo#3 -Cell#6',
   u'LIBRARY_SELECTION': u'cDNA',
   u'LIBRARY_SOURCE': u'TRANSCRIPTOMIC',
   u'LIBRARY_STRATEGY': u'RNA-Seq'},
  u'Organism': {u'ScientificName': u'Homo sapiens', u'taxid': u'9606'},
  u'Sample': {u'acc': u'SRS310960', u'name': u''},
  u'Study': {u'acc': u'SRP011546',
   u'name': u'Tracing pluripotency of human early embryos and embryonic stem cells by single cell RNA-seq'},
  u'Submitter': {u'acc': u'SRA050912',
   u'center_name': u'GEO',
   u'contact_name': u'Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), NCBI, NLM, NIH, htt',
   u'lab_name': u''},
  u'Summary': {u'Platform': {u'_': u'ILLUMINA',
    u'instrument_model': u'Illumina HiSeq 2000'},
   u'Statistics': {u'cluster_name': u'public',
    u'load_done': u'true',
    u'total_bases': u'4750085700',
    u'total_runs': u'1',
    u'total_size': u'3178301878',
    u'total_spots': u'47500857'},
   u'Title': u'GSM922175: 8-cell embryo#3 -Cell#6; Homo sapiens; RNA-Seq'}},
 u'extlinks': u'    ',
 u'runs': {u'Run': [{u'acc': u'SRR490990',
    u'cluster_name': u'public',
    u'is_public': u'true',
    u'load_done': u'true',
    u'static_data_available': u'true',
    u'total_bases': u'4750085700',
    u'total_spots': u'47500857'}]},
 u'uid': u'174404',
 u'updatedate': u'2013/09/23'}

thanks!!