[Bioc-devel] Update in BioMart/ENSEMBL alters coMET

Markus List markus.list at mpi-inf.mpg.de
Wed Dec 20 11:41:16 CET 2017


I've also had trouble accessing hsapiens_gene_ensembl yesterday without
updating the biomaRt package. I think ENSEMBL is making changes on the
server side. Does anyone know more about this?

Best,
Markus



On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 at 16:17 Martin, Tiphaine <tiphaine.martin at kcl.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Could you inform me which modification you did in biomaRt ? or in ENSEMBL ?
>
> Indeed, I have my R package (coMET) use biomaRt to access to data. From
> the last update in BiomaRt (12/14/2017), I have a new error message.
>
>
> Do you change the name of database associated with ENSEMBL ?
>
>
> This is my error message
>
> Unexpected format to the list of available marts.
> Please check the following URL manually, and try ?listMarts for advice.
>
> http://grch37.ensembl.org:80/biomart/martservice?type=registry&requestid=biomaRt
>
>  When I look at the list of dataset, I have
>
> <MartURLLocation database="ensembl_mart_91" default="1"
> displayName="Ensembl Genes 91" host="grch37.ensembl.org"
> includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL"
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="80" serverVirtualSchema="default"
> visible="1" />
>
>
> however, previously, the database name was hsapiens_gene_ensembl.
>
> Does it mean that you are going to change the name of database for each
> new release ?
>
> How, I can have the name of databases from ENSEMBL stable between
> different releases of ENSEMBL
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tiphaine
>
>
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