How to search for high coverage SRA entries The Question
I want to find high coverage SRA entries, e.g., above 100x.
I guess the best way is to use https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra with an appropriate search term. I don't mind if the search results contain some &quot;false-positives&quot;. (I.e., if some of the found entries have coverage above 80x, while I aimed for 100x, that's fine.)
I want to avoid using Entrez.esummary on a very large number of SRA entries (e.g., through Biopython), as it would be significantly slower (if I understand correctly).
How can I do that?

My Attempt
I tried using the Mbases field.Assuming the reference genome is at most 100kbp (e.g., in case I am interested in viruses), I thought a good approximation would be to search for SRA entries with more than 100*100k bases, i.e., at least 10M bases.
According to https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK3837/, I thought I could use the search term 10:9999999[Mbases], but disappointingly, this didn't work. Just to make sure my syntax is right, I verified that 100:101[ReadLength] works. So it seems that Mbases doesn't support the range syntax.
If processing a huge table with lots of &quot;false positives&quot; is OK, then you could enter your search term, from top right choose &quot;Send to&quot; &gt; &quot;File&quot; Format: &quot;RunInfo&quot;.