Request: Add tag for 2025 release

[psadil]

As of this month, there's a brand new release with lots of interesting improvements: https://www.humanconnectome.org/study/hcp-young-adult/document/hcp-young-adult-2025-release. It would be great to be able to switch to a tag that brings in the updated files.

[yarikoptic]

yeah, when I looked -- shipped through balsa... someone yet to look on how support auth/downloads through it. (before it was from S3 with auth through some adhoc auth point IIRC)

[psadil]

In support of S3 access being unlikely for the foreseeable future: https://groups.google.com/a/humanconnectome.org/g/hcp-users/c/FSCo8ELIrgM/m/eU4CXkh_AwAJ

[yarikoptic]

eh, so not even REST API available ATM. But then how does balsa downloads? may be there is some "balsa CLI" which could be interfaced?

[mharms]

The BALSA downloads are through the same Aspera client used on ConnectomeDB.

[yarikoptic]

ha -- there is apparently an open-source (apache2) aspera client : https://github.com/IBM/aspera-cli . Doc there inspires to use API

Using APIs (application REST API and transfer SDK) will prove to be easier to develop and maintain. Code examples here: https://github.com/laurent-martin/aspera-api-examples

with some python ones: https://github.com/laurent-martin/aspera-api-examples/tree/main/app/python ... having some working example for HCP would help to move the mountain of this issue ;-)