[BioC] unimart web Service not available

[Kathrin Otte [guest]]

Hi everybody,

since this weekend I can't no longer connect to uniprot Biomart services via biomaRt (which worked pretty fine before) receiving the following error:

> uni <- useMart("unimart",dataset="uniprot")
Fehler in useMart("unimart", dataset = "uniprot") : 
  Incorrect BioMart name, use the listMarts function to see which BioMart databases are available

In fact, unimart is missing from listMarts(). I tried with R 2.14.1 and biomaRt_2.10.0 and also R 3.0.1 and biomaRt 2.16.0 leading to the same result.

Any suggestions what is going on?

Thanks a lot for your help,
Kathrin

 -- output of sessionInfo(): 

> sessionInfo()
R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] biomaRt_2.10.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] RCurl_1.95-3 XML_3.95-0.1

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