[ensembl-dev] newbie with Ensembl API- alignments

[Manuel Rodríguez Pascual]

I am just starting working with Ensembl API. I am not really experienced
neither with Ensembl or bioinformatics itself,so I am stuck in a problem
that seems to be easy to solve.


As a test and proof of concept, I am interested to retrieve information of
a comparison in phylip format. In particular, the provided example
http://www.ensembl
.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Compara_Alignments?align=548&db=core&g=ENSG00000171105&r=19%3A7112266-7294045

when exported into a phylip format,

http://www.ensembl
.org/Homo_sapiens/Export/Output/Location/Alignment?align=548;db=core;g=ENSG00000171105;output=alignment;r=19:7112266-7294045;format=phylip;_format=Text

I have however seen that the employment of wget is discouraged and the
Ensembl API should be used instead.

Reading the available documentation, I fell that I should use the Compara
API Tutorial,
http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/api/compara/compara_tutorial.html

but I don't really understand it or how to apply it to my objective.

The question is, can anyone orient me on how to proceed?



Thanks for your attention,



Manuel


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