btaurus_gene_ensembl is a dataset name, not a mart name. The parameter 'mart' requires a mart name. In this case (admittedly I did this by process of guessing) the mart name for the mart that contains the dataset btaurus_gene_ensembl is 'ensembl'. Therefore the following works the way you are probably expecting it to:
http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?mart=ensembl&type=version cheers, Richard On 26 Aug 2010, at 14:59, Gabriel Berriz wrote: > Bump? > > On 100813F, at 16:30, Gabriel Berriz wrote: > >> Is there a programmatic way to get the correct value of the >> datasetConfigVersion attribute, for queries like >> >> <!DOCTYPE Query> >> <Query completionStamp="1" count="" datasetConfigVersion="0.6" >> requestId="biomart-client" uniqueRows="1" virtualSchemaName="default"> >> <Dataset interface="default" name="btaurus_gene_ensembl"> >> <Attribute name="ensembl_gene_id" /> >> <Attribute name="description" /> >> </Dataset> >> </Query> >> >> Until some months ago, I used to get this information with the following >> query: >> >> /biomart/martservice?mart=btaurus_gene_ensembl&virtualschema=default&type=version >> >> But now this query fails with the following error message: >> >> Mart name btaurus_gene_ensembl not found on server for the >> serverVirtualSchema specified >> non-BioMart die(): Can't call method "version" on an undefined value at >> /ensemblweb/wwwmart/www_59/biomart-perl/cgi-bin/martservice line 424. > > > > > > > ============================================================= > Gabriel F. Berriz, PhD > Senior Bioinformatics Developer > Roth Lab > Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology -- Harvard Medical School > 250 Longwood Avenue > Seeley G. Mudd Building 322B > Boston, MA 02115-5701 > Telephone: 617.432.3555 > Fax: 617.432.3557 > > > > > -- Richard Holland, BSc MBCS Operations and Delivery Director, Eagle Genomics Ltd T: +44 (0)1223 654481 ext 3 | E: holl...@eaglegenomics.com http://www.eaglegenomics.com/
