[ensembl-dev] perl api question

Kieron Taylor ktaylor at ebi.ac.uk
Mon Apr 15 17:20:30 BST 2013


Further to my last, I see that these IDs are referenced in Ensembl 
Genomes, where they are valid stable IDs. Perhaps they can be of assistance.


-- 
Kieron Taylor PhD.
Ensembl Core team
EBI

On 15/04/2013 17:18, Kieron Taylor wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> The IDs you are quizzing Ensembl with are unknown to me. I can only find
> them in "dictyBase", which we do not refer to. They may be stable IDs of
> a sort, but not of Ensembl origin, therefore using fetch_by_stable_id
> will return nothing.
>
> The code itself looks ok.
>
> If you have the information readily available, you should try using the
> gene names instead ( ->fetch_by_display_name ), or find other
> identifiers that you can feed into our Xref system. (
> ->fetch_by_external_name )
>
> There is a password for you local database in the script you sent to the
> mailing list. If this is a security concern, you should change it
> immediately.
>
> Regards,
>






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