[BioC] error message from bioMart

[steffen at stat.Berkeley.EDU]

Dear Di,

This hasn't happened often but it looks like the BioMart servers at EBI
are down.

Try surfing to:

http://www.biomart.org

it currently doesn't work.
I assume this will be fixed asap by the BioMart team, there is nothing we
can do from our (biomaRt) end.

Cheers,
Steffen


> Hello,
>
> I am using R2.8.0. I tried to use to.mart in bioMart, but I got the
> following error message. I know I am connecting to internet.
>
>> library("biomaRt")
>> to.mart <- useMart("ensembl","hsapiens_gene_ensembl")
> Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body
> Premature end of data in tag html line 1
> Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body
> 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1
>> interactive()
> [1] TRUE
>
> When I debug to.mart, I got
>
> Browse[1]>
> debug: host = "http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice"
> Browse[1]>
> debug: marts = listMarts(host = host, includeHosts = TRUE, archive =
> archive)
> Browse[1]>
> Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body
> Premature end of data in tag html line 1
> Error: 1: Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 3 and body
> 2: Premature end of data in tag html line 1
>
> Then I went to http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice. But was pointed
> to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html".
>
> I also went to http://www.biomart.org. I clicked "BioMart Central Portal",
> and was pointed to "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/errors/failure.html" again.
> I guess this is the problem. Anybody had the same problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Di
>
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