text: user9815: I'm currently working on testing some matching algorithms for strings. I would like to do some tests on raw genomic data as I expect different results from random strings given the lower entropy. How can I get a whole human genome sequence? (just the raw basis)
  I have tried websites like https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ it seems very confusing and full of unnecessary information given that I just want to have the raw basis without annotations.
  
  user9693: You want FASTA files from here.
  If you want the entirety of the genome, get the dna-toplevel file. Files with rm and sm have repeat sequences masked, the former by replacing the repeats with Ns (hard mask) the latter by designating repeats as lower case letters (soft masked).
  See the README for more info.
  
original_text: 9815: <p>I'm currently working on testing some matching algorithms for strings. I would like to do some tests on raw genomic data as I expect different results from random strings given the lower entropy. How can I get a whole human genome sequence? (just the raw basis)</p>
  <p>I have tried websites like <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/</a> it seems very confusing and full of unnecessary information given that I just want to have the raw basis without annotations.</p>
   9693: <p>You want <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTA_format" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FASTA</a> files from <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-101/fasta/homo_sapiens/dna/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>
  <p>If you want the entirety of the genome, get the dna-toplevel file. Files with rm and sm have repeat sequences masked, the former by replacing the repeats with Ns (hard mask) the latter by designating repeats as lower case letters (soft masked).</p>
  <p>See the <a href="ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/release-101/fasta/homo_sapiens/dna/README" rel="nofollow noreferrer">README</a> for more info.</p>
  