> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.nvidia.com/clara/parabricks/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.nvidia.com/clara/parabricks/_mcp/server.

# Getting the Sample Data

Download the sample data with the following command. This data will be used in the tutorial
examples.

```sh
$ wget -O parabricks_sample.tar.gz \
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/parabricks.sample/parabricks_sample.tar.gz"
```

The tar file is 11GB and, when extracted, an additional 16GB.

Extract the data with this command:

```sh
$ tar xvf parabricks_sample.tar.gz 
parabricks_sample/
parabricks_sample/Data/
parabricks_sample/Data/markdup_input.bam
parabricks_sample/Data/sample_2.fq.gz
parabricks_sample/Data/sample_1.fq.gz
parabricks_sample/Data/singled_ended.bam
parabricks_sample/Ref/
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.pac
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.ann
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.known_indels.vcf.gz.tbi
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.amb
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.dict
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.fai
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.known_indels.vcf.gz
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.bwt
parabricks_sample/Ref/Homo_sapiens_assembly38.fasta.sa
```

You are now ready to try the example commands shown in the rest of the Tutorials section.