Dear Ellen, The 0.8 REST api is not yet ready to be officially released. I have reviewed it recently and it requires a little bit of cleaning because the current implementation is not very intuitive. Basically, when you ask for a mart you actually supply its configuration as a parameter. It is our intenation that in the near future it will be changed such that you will be able to supply mart and it will use its default configuration while other configurations will become an optional parameter.
If you simply want to play with it, please supply config name as a mart argument. e.g in the call: http://central.biomart.org/martservice/marts you willl get: mart mart="gene_ensembl" config="gene_ensembl_config_3" please use: http://central.biomart.org/martservice/datasets?mart=gene_ensembl_config_3 instead of: http://central.biomart.org/martservice/datasets?mart=gene_ensembl I know this is unituitive and therefore i am reluctant to release it until we clean it up but if you want to play with it you are more than welcome please look at the example on page 75 (11.3.5). this should make it more clear a On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Ellen Schofield < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am investigating using BioMart for our website and am trying to > understand BioMart 0.8. To do so, I am using the martservice REST api to > interrogate the central biomart service and look at how things that work > are set up. > > According to the docs (page 69, section 11.3.3.3), the following should > return me a list of datasets for a given mart name:- > http://central.biomart.org/**martservice/datasets?mart=**gene_ensembl<http://central.biomart.org/martservice/datasets?mart=gene_ensembl> > > But all I am seeing is a page not found error. Have I mis-understood > something or is something going wrong? The same error (for a different > mart, of course) can be reproduced on the cancer portal and my own test > portal. The martserive works for the portal & marts methods for me. > > I look forward to hearing from somebody. > > Yours, > Ellen. > > -- > [email protected] > JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory (DIL) > Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR) > Wellcome Trust/MRC Building > Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0XY > Tel: 01223 763215 > > ______________________________**_________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.biomart.org/**mailman/listinfo/users<https://lists.biomart.org/mailman/listinfo/users> >
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