Great.  Thanks for the information.  --Josh

On Aug 31, 2012, at 3:57 AM, Rhoda Kinsella wrote:

> Hi Josh,
> We will change the attribute names to use the species latin names for the 
> next release due in early October. Thank you for your feedback.
> Regards
> Rhoda
> 
> 
> On 30 Aug 2012, at 23:46, "Stein, Joshua" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to parse available homolog information from the attribute 
>> metadata tables, e.g. available at 
>> http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=attributes&dataset=oanatinus_gene_ensembl
>> 
>> I don't understand why in the case of ensembl_mart_68 the name given to a 
>> gene dataset (e.g.  "mmusculus_gene_ensembl") has no correspondence with the 
>> attribute names of target homolog gene sets, which tend to use common names 
>> instead of scientific names (e.g. "mouse_ensembl_gene").  There is not 
>> sufficient information in the attribute file to parse species, assembly, 
>> etc. for the target homolog gene set.
>> 
>> This problem does not exist for other Mart services such as metazoa_mart_14, 
>> wherein the gene dataset names match with homolog gene attribute names.  In 
>> this case it is possible to get richer metadata for the homolog attribute 
>> name by consulting the dataset metadata file.  For example 
>> "amellifera_eg_gene" appears both as a dataset and as an attribute. 
>> 
>> Is there a way to mitigate this Ensembl main?  I'm trying to automate 
>> ortholog retrieval given a query species and target species and think I can 
>> only do this easily with Ensembl Genomes marts given the structure of the 
>> metadata.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>> 
>> 
>> Joshua Stein, PhD
>> Manager, Sci. Informatics III
>> Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
>> [email protected]
>> http://ware.cshl.org/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Rhoda Kinsella Ph.D.
> Ensembl Production Project Leader,
> European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI),
> Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
> Hinxton,
> Cambridge,
> CB10 1SD
> 
> 
> 

Joshua Stein, PhD
Manager, Sci. Informatics III
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
[email protected]
http://ware.cshl.org/



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