diff --git a/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8a1bb5376eaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/science/biology/sratoolkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{ stdenv
+, lib
+, fetchurl
+, autoPatchelfHook
+, libidn
+, zlib
+, bzip2
+}:
+
+
+let
+  libidn11 = libidn.overrideAttrs (old: {
+    pname = "libidn";
+    version = "1.34";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = "mirror://gnu/libidn/libidn-1.34.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "0g3fzypp0xjcgr90c5cyj57apx1cmy0c6y9lvw2qdcigbyby469p";
+    };
+  });
+
+in
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "sratoolkit";
+  version = "2.11.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://ftp-trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/sdk/${version}/sratoolkit.${version}-ubuntu64.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1590lc4cplxr3lhjqci8fjncy67imn2h14qd2l87chmhjh243qvx";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
+    autoPatchelfHook
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    libidn11
+    zlib
+    bzip2
+    stdenv.cc.cc.lib
+  ];
+
+  sourceRoot = "./sratoolkit.${version}-ubuntu64/bin";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    find -L . -executable -type f -! -name "*remote-fuser*" -exec install -m755 -D {} $out/bin/{} \;
+  '';
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    homepage = "https://github.com/ncbi/sra-tools";
+    description = "The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and libraries for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read Archives.";
+    license = licenses.publicDomain;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ thyol ];
+    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index aec24366a77b..9d15e16d3737 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16517,6 +16517,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   srandrd = callPackage ../tools/X11/srandrd { };
 
+  sratoolkit = callPackage ../applications/science/biology/sratoolkit { };
+
   srecord = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/srecord { };
 
   srelay = callPackage ../tools/networking/srelay { };