[ensembl-dev] Database names?

Beth Yates bp1 at sanger.ac.uk
Tue Jun 19 09:17:28 BST 2012


You can get a list of databases names for the latest release from the 
FTP site ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_mysql/ each directory on this 
page corresponds to a database name.

Hope this helps.
Beth


On 18/06/12 18:22, Maury Markowitz wrote:
> I'm trying to connect to the Ensembl database using ODBC, and because I'm a glutton for punishment, I'm doing so from the Mac. I have installed the 64-bit MySQL ODBC drivers and built a DSN pointing to ensembldb.ensembl.org.
>
> Opening the connection appears to work, at least it does not return any errors from the ODBC driver. However, I am not attached to a particular DB when this happens. This is likely something simple in my DSN setup, so I went looking for a list of DB names so I could manually "USE xxx" to get properly connected...
>
> ...and I couldn't find such a thing. There's documentation on the tables, but nothing on the actual DB names in the public server?
>
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