Cheers Dan, I'll see if I can figure out how to do that. I'm a bit of an R 
newbie (or to be honest a  complete beginner at all things bioinformatic), but 
that should be possible in theory, I guess. I'll post a fix if I can make 
something work.
Thanks,
Gareth


On 8 Mar 2012, at 23:03, Dan Staines wrote:

> Hi Gareth,
> 
> I suspect you're connecting directly through biomart central, and I 
> don't think they've repacked/restarted their servers yet, as Arek 
> mentioned a slight lag due to a reorganisation of their services. I 
> imagine you can point your biomaRt adaptor directly at the EBI mart 
> servers/dbs (e.g. bacteria.ensembl.org/biomart/martview or 
> [email protected]:4157), though I confess this is something I 
> don't know much about. Maybe someone else can suggest how to modify 
> things to use EBI directly?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Dan.
> 
> On 03/08/2012 06:46 PM, Gareth Morgan wrote:
>> Thanks Dan. I guessed that it might have something to do with the new
>> Ensembl release.
>> However, I can't see bacteria_mart_13 from within R:
>> 
>>> listMarts()
>>                                  biomart                                     
>>              version
>> 1                                ensembl                             ENSEMBL 
>> GENES 65 (SANGER UK)
>> 2                                    snp                         ENSEMBL 
>> VARIATION 65 (SANGER UK)
>> 3                    functional_genomics                        ENSEMBL 
>> REGULATION 65 (SANGER UK)
>> 4                                   vega                                     
>> VEGA 45  (SANGER UK)
>> 5                       bacteria_mart_12                             ENSEMBL 
>> BACTERIA 12 (EBI UK)
>> 
>> 
>>> mart=useMart("bacteria_mart_13")
>> Error in useMart("bacteria_mart_13") :
>>   Incorrect BioMart name, use the listMarts function to see which BioMart 
>> databases are available
>> 
>> 
>> Any idea how to get at it from R, or when it will be released?
>> Cheers,
>> Gareth
>> 
>> 
>> On 03/08/2012 12:14 AM, Dan Staines wrote:
>>> Hi Gareth,
>>> 
>>> As mentioned in a mail I sent to the list yesterday, we've now released
>>> Ensembl Genomes 13, so bacteria_mart_13 has been retired and is no
>>> longer available through our mart interface. The db is still there on
>>> our public server if you need to use it directly, but there is no change
>>> in the data so I'd suggest you change to use v13 instead.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Dan Staines.
>>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
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