Dear mart gurus, I am trying to download the orthologs between human and all other species in ensembl via biomart's REST service without hardcoding the names into my scripts as I want the scripts to work even with the next ensembl version. This is not easy.
The problem is that I have no idea how you name the species in the biomart. You are not using the scientific name (which would be probably the simplest choice). You not using the common name (at least not the one from ensembl_website_56.species.) I have the impression that you are sometimes using the common name (wallaby), sometimes using the scientific name (ciona_intestinalis). Is there any way for me to retrieve the list of species used in the biomart and map them to the scientific names used in Ensembl? Thanks in advance Max
