[ensembl-dev] biomart down?

[Paul Rigor]

Thank you, all seems to be well with the US site! Must have a been a
weekend hiccup.

Cheers,
Paul


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On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Maurel <maurel at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear Paul,
>
> The BiomaRt package from Bioconductor is pointing to www.biomart.org by
> default (which seems to be down at the moment), could you please report
> this issue to the biomart.org user list (biomart-users at googlegroups.com) as
> we don't look after the biomart.org website.
> In the meantime, you can change your host to ensembl.org to access out
> data by doing the following:
>
> ensembl <- useMart(biomart="ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", host="www.ensembl.org",
> path="/biomart/martservice")
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> On 15 Feb 2014, at 20:40, Paul Rigor <paul.rigor at uci.edu> wrote:
>
> That's odd. Both the website and webservices are unavailable. And from the
> biomart R package, I receive the following error message:
>
>
> > ensembl = useMart("ensembl",dataset="mmusculus_gene_ensembl")
> Request to BioMart web service failed. Verify if you are still connected to the internet.  Alternatively the BioMart web service is temporarily down.  Check http://www.biomart.org and verify if this website is available.Error: XML content does not seem to be XML:
>
>
> Anyone else encounter this issue? I should probably ping the BioConductor
> folks, but this was working until yesterday (Friday, 2/14/2014) afternoon.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
>
> --
> Paul Rigor
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~prigor
> "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of
> questioning" ~ Werner Karl Heisenberg
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:45 AM, steve trevanion <st3 at sanger.ac.uk>wrote:
>
>>  Hi Paul,
>>
>> It's also OK for me, as is the uswest mirror. What error message are you
>> getting ?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On 15/02/14 17:39, Paul Rigor wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andy,
>> Unfortunately, it's still down =\
>> ~Paul
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Rigor
>> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~prigor
>>  "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method
>> of questioning" ~ Werner Karl Heisenberg
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Andy Yates <ayates at ebi.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Paul
>>>
>>>  I've not seen anything wrong with it from here in the uk. Is it
>>> behaving better for you now?
>>>
>>>  Andy
>>>
>>> Sent from my tablet
>>>
>>> On 15 Feb 2014, at 01:22, Paul Rigor <paul.rigor at uci.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Dear all,
>>> Just wondering if anyone else is having trouble accessing biomart? I'm
>>> attempting to access from southern California.
>>> Thanks!
>>> Paul
>>>
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