diff --git a/biobricks/brick.py b/biobricks/brick.py
index fe5d318..54147f9 100644
--- a/biobricks/brick.py
+++ b/biobricks/brick.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from .config import bblib, token
 from .logger import logger
 import os, urllib.request as request, functools, shutil, yaml
-from .downloader import download_out
+from .downloader import Downloader
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 import sys
 from .checks import check_url_available, check_token, check_safe_git_repo
@@ -138,12 +138,10 @@ def install(self):
             stages = [stage for stage in dvc_lock.get('stages', []).values()]
             outs = [out for stage in stages for out in stage.get('outs', [])]
         
-        brick_outs = [out for out in outs if out.get('path').startswith('brick')]
-        for out in brick_outs:
-            md5 = out.get('md5')
-            relpath = out.get('path')
-            dest_path = self.path() / relpath
-            download_out(md5, dest_path)
+
+        downloader = Downloader()
+        downloader.download_by_prefix(outs, 'data', self.path())
+        downloader.download_by_prefix(outs, 'brick', self.path())
             
         logger.info(f"\033[94m{self.url()}\033[0m succesfully downloaded to BioBricks library.")
         return self
diff --git a/biobricks/downloader.py b/biobricks/downloader.py
index 1af89c1..6842ce4 100644
--- a/biobricks/downloader.py
+++ b/biobricks/downloader.py
@@ -16,50 +16,56 @@ class Downloader:
     def _md5_to_remote_url( self, md5 ):
         return self.remote_url_prefix + md5[:2] + "/" + md5[2:]
 
-def _download_outdir(url, dest_path: Path):
-    with requests.get(url, headers={'BBToken': token()}, stream=True) as r:
-        r.raise_for_status()
-        for o in r.json():
-            download_out(o['md5'], dest_path / o['relpath'])
-                
-def _download_outfile(url, path: Path, bytes=None):
+    def _download_outdir(self, url, dest_path: Path):
+        with requests.get(url, headers={'BBToken': token()}, stream=True) as r:
+            r.raise_for_status()
+            for o in r.json():
+                self.download_out(o['md5'], dest_path / o['relpath'])
+                    
+    def _download_outfile(self, url, path: Path, bytes=None):
 
-    with requests.get(url, headers={'BBToken': token()}, stream=True) as r:
-        r.raise_for_status()
-        total_size = bytes if bytes else int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0))
-        progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size, unit='iB', unit_scale=True, desc=f"Downloading file")
-        with open(path, 'wb') as f:
-            for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
-                f.write(chunk)
-                progress_bar.update(len(chunk))
-        progress_bar.close()
-        if total_size != 0 and progress_bar.n != total_size:
-            logger.error("ERROR, something went wrong")
-    
-    
-def download_out(md5, dest: Path, url_prefix="https://dvc.biobricks.ai/files/md5/", bytes=None):
-    
-    # make parent directories
-    dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    cache_path = bblib() / 'cache' / md5[:2] / md5[2:]
-    cache_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    
-    remote_url = url_prefix + md5[:2] + "/" + md5[2:]
-    
-    if md5.endswith('.dir'):
-        logger.info(f"downloading directory {remote_url} to {dest}")
-        return _download_outdir(remote_url, dest)
-    
-    if not cache_path.exists():
-        logger.info(f"downloading file {remote_url} to {cache_path}")
-        _download_outfile(remote_url, cache_path, bytes)
+        with requests.get(url, headers={'BBToken': token()}, stream=True) as r:
+            r.raise_for_status()
+            total_size = bytes if bytes else int(r.headers.get('content-length', 0))
+            progress_bar = tqdm(total=total_size, unit='iB', unit_scale=True, desc=f"Downloading file")
+            with open(path, 'wb') as f:
+                for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=8192):
+                    f.write(chunk)
+                    progress_bar.update(len(chunk))
+            progress_bar.close()
+            if total_size != 0 and progress_bar.n != total_size:
+                logger.error("ERROR, something went wrong")
         
-    dest.unlink(missing_ok=True) # remove the symlink if it exists
-    if not biobricks.checks.can_symlink():
-        logger.warning(f"you are not able to make symlinks cache-files will be copied to bricks. This is an inefficient use of disk space.")
-        shutil.copy(cache_path, dest)
-    else:
-        os.symlink(cache_path, dest)
+
+    def download_out(self, md5, dest: Path, url_prefix="https://dvc.biobricks.ai/files/md5/", bytes=None):
         
-    
+        # make parent directories
+        dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        cache_path = bblib() / 'cache' / md5[:2] / md5[2:]
+        cache_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+        remote_url = self._md5_to_remote_url(md5)
+
+        if md5.endswith('.dir'):
+            logger.info(f"downloading directory {remote_url} to {dest}")
+            return self._download_outdir(remote_url, dest)
+
+        if not cache_path.exists():
+            logger.info(f"downloading file {remote_url} to {cache_path}")
+            self._download_outfile(remote_url, cache_path, bytes)
+
+        dest.unlink(missing_ok=True) # remove the symlink if it exists
+        if not biobricks.checks.can_symlink():
+            logger.warning(f"you are not able to make symlinks cache-files will be copied to bricks. This is an inefficient use of disk space.")
+            shutil.copy(cache_path, dest)
+        else:
+            os.symlink(cache_path, dest)
+
+    def download_by_prefix(self, outs, prefix, path):
+        brick_outs = [out for out in outs if out.get('path').startswith(prefix)]
+        for out in brick_outs:
+            md5 = out.get('md5')
+            relpath = out.get('path')
+            dest_path = path / relpath
+            self.download_out(md5, dest_path)