Use SRR files with .rar (ziped) format

[iranianuser]

Hello
I had trouble with uploading my read files in a sever to do Bismark analysis cause they are so big (about 20 G). I compressed them with winRar and I want to run Bismark alignment. Can I ran Bismark with .rar format reads? If I can't please tell me another way. Is there a way to change the format to gzip?
thanks alot

[FelixKrueger]

Bismark generally takes files either as .fastq or its gzip compressed version .fastq.gz. winRar is not supported, and I would generally recommend to use a Linux or Mac environment for analysis. If you've for .sra files you will first need to transform them to FastQ format using tools such as sratools.