On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:52 +0100, David Withers wrote: > 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.
Fine, having discussed this with Tom got your point. The next release (0.7) plans to address these different derivatives of version in an elegant way. Probably the version under discussion here would go away and version per dataset would stay as datasetConfigVersion. Just as you request version of a Mart from martservice, you would be able to get the version per dataset. This would probably appear in this request: http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=datasets&mart=ensembl Hope, we wont leave any surprises on this front. Cheers Syed > > David. -- ====================================== Syed Haider. EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. ======================================
