When I send the following query: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE Query> <Query virtualSchemaName="default" count="0"> <Dataset name="hsapiens_gene_ensembl"> <Filter name="gene_stable_id" value="ENSG00000100031" /> </Dataset> <Dataset name="hsapiens_genomic_sequence"> <Attribute name="cdna" /> </Dataset> <Dataset name="hsapiens_gene_ensembl_structure"> <Attribute name="gene_stable_id" /> </Dataset> <Links source="hsapiens_gene_ensembl" target="hsapiens_gene_ensembl_structure" defaultLink="hsapiens_internal_transcript_id" /> <Links source="hsapiens_gene_ensembl_structure" target="hsapiens_genomic_sequence" defaultLink="cdna" /> </Query>
to http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?query= the results I get back are ordered: 'gene_stable_id', 'cdna'. I was expecting the results to be in the order that the attributes are specified in the query. How can I determine the order in which the results will be returned? David. -- David Withers School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. Tel: +44(0)161 275 0145
