BFD download bottleneck

[georgkempf]

Hi,
this is not really an issue with the code but it seems that downloading the BFD database is a real bottleneck (at least for me). I tried aria2c and wget and with both I only get around 200 kb/s download rate. It is certainly not a limit of bandwidth on my side. Estimated time of completion is 9d! Does anyone maybe have the file mirrored?

[ioioba]

Same for me. I get around 6000 kb/s in the first minute and then it continuously goes down to 80 - 200 kb/s ... estimated time of completion is 25d! :D

[tjonesster]

Encountering the same issue. The dataset is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license so redistribution is allowed. Can someone with a complete copy set up a torrent so that we can seed for one another?

[tfgg]

Edit: We've now updated the download script for BFD to use our mirror. Please update and use that.

Hi, we've set up a mirror on cloud storage here:

https://storage.googleapis.com/alphafold-databases/casp14_versions/bfd_metaclust_clu_complete_id30_c90_final_seq.sorted_opt.tar.gz

Please try using it in your download script.

This link makes available:
BFD (unmodified), by Steinegger M. and Söding J., available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.