Thanks for the tip... our firewall is acting up lately, we'll be back up soon. Sorry if we caused some problems!
Eric On 3/21/07, Arek Kasprzyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 21 Mar 2007, at 13:45, Martin Kochan via RT wrote: > Dear Giulietta > > Yes, I'd wish to reopen this request. Could you please forward this > mail > to Arek Kasprzyk or somebody on the BioMart team? > > Thank you. > > ------------------- > > Dear Arek, > > I am sending this to you in addition to my post to > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yesterday I was complaining about BioMart not loading in Taverna. You > replied that it could be because DictyBase is off these days. I looked > into how Taverna creates the Biomart widget and essentially it starts > by > reading a file http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice from which it > gets list of BioMart databases. Now, supposedly, if it finds that some > of these databases is off, it just fails. Do you know of any way of > getting around this? It does not help to store an edited version of > this > file on local HTTP server, as obviously it's a CGI script, and Taverna > attemps posting to it as well. > > Thank you, > Martin Kochan > Martin, the best place to post such 'technical' BioMart mails is [email protected] I am redirecting you there. Well, BioMart clients that use our web service in a manner similar to taverna can be run from a locally stored _registry_ file, which is what the following request produces: http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=registry I am not sure about Taverna capabilities if it can be run with a locally stored file of this kind. Another suggestion of course is to make Taverna to skip a given mart server if does not get a valid response within certain time and move on to the next one rather than just ungracefully fail. Both of these suggestions are probably best placed with Taverna developers. In dicty case we only provide a registry service and obviously in such circumstances we can't be responsible for individual servers maintained elsewhere as we have absolutely no control over this not sure if this helps ;) a. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------- Arek Kasprzyk EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. Tel: +44-(0)1223-494606 Fax: +44-(0)1223-494468 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
