Hi,

Apologies if I'm missing something very obvious, but I'm struggling to
figure out how to make BioMart behave the way I want.

What I've been asked to do is to use the BioMart framework to produce a
portal that lab members can use to access results from the different
experiments that have been done in our lab. So the idea is that the user can
go to the BioMart page, input <gene name> and get back something like a page
displaying data from any experiment associated with that gene name.

Whilst I can follow the instructions in the BioMart docs to configure one
dataset, I can't work out how to add multiple datasets to my mart.

If I create multiple configs, when I start the server I get a page with
links to each config name. Clicking on one of those takes me to a query page
with the headings "Database" and "Dataset".  "Database" == the name of my
config. "Dataset" == the name of my dataset (phew!).

This isn't entirely what I expected, which makes me worried that I'm
fundamentally misunderstanding something - I can I add multiple datasets to
one config? What I want to achieve is something like the main BioMart's
MartView - drop down menus for the user to select a database and datasets
from.

I would then like to present data to the user as a report with the gene name
as the key and results from the different data sources (in this case
experiment types) as different sections of the report.

cheers
Jane

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Jane Charlesworth PhD
Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology,
Institute of Cell Biology,
School of Biological Sciences,
The University of Edinburgh,
6.33 Swann Building
Mayfield Road
Edinburgh EH9 3JR
Scotland UK.
Email: j <[email protected]>[email protected]
Tel: 44-(0)131-650-7116
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