A performant and storage-efficient CLI tool to extract sequences from an SRA archive with support for FASTA, FASTQ, and BINSEQ outputs. The NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) is a repository of raw sequencing data. The file format used by the SRA is a complicated binary database format that isn't directly readable by most bioinformatics tools. This tool makes use of the ncbi_vdb C-library via ncbi-vdb-sys to interact with SRA files through safe abstractions. This tool is designed to be a fast, storage-efficient, and more convenient replacement for the `fastq-dump` and `fasterq-dump` tools provided by the NCBI sra-tools. However, it is not a complete feature-for-feature replacement, and some functionality may be missing.

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