twobitreader.download

downloads a .2bit genome from UCSC .. note:: please comply with the restrictions of use at http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/downloads.html

and do not over-use this module

By default, genomes are saved to the current directory

twobitreader.download.save_genome(name, destdir=None, mode='ftp')

tries to download a genome from UCSC by name

for example, ‘hg19’ is at ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/hg19.2bit