[ensembl-dev] Is Perl API already version 66?

Paul Flicek flicek at ebi.ac.uk
Sun Jan 8 23:27:40 GMT 2012


Hi Sergei,

If you are using wget you have to escape the ampersands in the URL or you will cut off the part of the command that specifies the tag.


Paul


On 8 Jan 2012, at 23:20, Sergei Manakov wrote:

> Hi Bert,
> 
> I just copied links from
> http://uswest.ensembl.org/info/docs/api/api_installation.html and
> downloaded them with wget.
> 
> Is this not a good way of downloading the Perl API?
> 
> thanks,
> Sergei
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 January 2012 14:58, Bert Overduin <bert at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hello Sergei,
>> 
>> I suspect you have downloaded the head code instead of the 65 branch ....
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bert
>> 
>> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Sergei Manakov <manakov at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I downloaded new API from ensembl website yesterday, and it appears to
>>> be of version 66.
>>> 
>>> I load registry like that:
>>> 
>>> my $registry = 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry';
>>> $registry->load_registry_from_db(
>>>  '-host'       => 'ensembldb.ensembl.org',
>>>  '-user'       => 'anonymous',
>>>  '-db_version' => '65'
>>> );
>>> 
>>> I get this warning: "For mus_musculus_core_65_37 there is a difference in the
>>> software release (66) and the database release (65). You should update
>>> one of these to ensure that your script does not crash."
>>> 
>>> And if I change '-db_version' => '66' the the script crashes saying:
>>> "MSG: Mouse is not a valid species name (check DB and API version)".
>>> Clearly, "Mouse" is a valid species name, so I assume that Ensembl 66
>>> is not ready yet.
>>> 
>>> If you know where the problem might be, please let me know.
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Sergei
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> 
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