Syed Haider wrote:
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 11:17 +0100, David Withers wrote:
The 'version' and 'versioncheck' martservice queries are no longer part
of the BioMart 0.6 documentation. Is their use deprecated?
David, does Taverna depend on these versions in some way ?
Taverna uses the version to know how to interpret the configuration
files, e.g. a 0.4 dataset configuration uses a different referencing
mechanism to 0.5.
The version is also used to set the softwareVersion
(datasetConfigVersion) attribute of the query and to determine the
format of the query.
One problem I have is that taverna lets the users save a biomart query
and then run it again at a later date. If the query format expected by
the martservice changes then the query may no longer run.
Another problem is that taverna can use any biomart installation; a 0.4
version doesn't work if you sent it 0.5 style queries.
David.
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