On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:07 +0100, Roloff, Tim wrote: Hi Tim > Hey there, > I ran into a couple of problems/questions while trying to set up a > Biomart database. > > - When we put a RegistryDBPointer and a MartDBLocation in the > defaultMartRegistry.xml, only the the RegistryDBPointer is used for the > database location and we do not see our local test databases. They do > however show up, if we only use MartDBLocations in the .xml. Is that > supposed to be that way or could both be loaded?
Thats already fixed for the next release which is due with in weeks time. > - We were trying to use Importables/Exportables to combine our datasets > with the ENSEMBL or Uniprot datasets. We had however difficulties to > figure out the exact naming of the corresponding values in > ENSEMBL/Uniprot. Is there a list of all Exportables/importables > somewhere, that one could use to do the matching? You can definitely create a link to existing Marts like ensembl. Using martEditor its possible to view the importable/Exportables properties. All you need to do is to download MartEditor which comes as a part of martJ tools from http://www.biomart.org/MartJ1.html Then setup a connection to say ensembl and 'import' the desired dataset to view its importable/exportable attributes > - Would it be possible to use more than two datasets for one query in > Biomart? Could you explain what you are trying to achieve by having more than two visible datasets here ? > - Some of the biomart datasets on the web are already version 0.5 and > hence not compatible with the current release. Does anyone know, when v > 0.5 will be available? as said, wiht in a week - hopefully. > > I hope these are not to many stupid questions and would greatly > appreciate any help. > Cheers Syed > Tim -- ====================================== Syed Haider. EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. ======================================
