[ensembl-dev] GRCH37 archives

[Anne Lyle]

> On 6 Oct 2015, at 08:14, Beat Wolf <beat.wolf at hefr.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>  
> i wanted to ask if there are any plans to create archives of the grch37 website.

Not as far as I know - this would require additional resources that have not been allocated.

> The reason i ask is because i develop an app which accesses ensembl in part through biomart and rest. With ensembl changing its API version, often quite unannounced and with API changes that are not always documented, its not easy to develop against that moving target. That is why i prefer to work with the archives, as i can move to newer API versions when i tested everything.

The updates are announced on this list and on our blog - for example we sent out an email on 31 July stating that release 82 was due out on 28 September. In the event it was delayed until 30 September owing to issues with biomart, but we aim to release within a week of the announced date. 

Note that the REST site has no archives, but the REST endpoints should be a lot more stable than the Perl API, requiring fewer updates.

>  
> I noticed that the grch37 site says:
> The API and website will be updated in tandem with the release of the main Ensembl website (currently version 81).
> Ensembl is now at version 82. Does that mean grch37 no longer gets updated? For me that would of course be good news, but it might just be that the API update is delayed.

No - we release the updated grch37 site about a week after the main site. Since we don’t have any staff dedicated to this site, we can’t do both at once :)

>  
> So, tldr; is there a plan to provide a stable version of the grch37 site which can be used as the target for application development?

I hope the above has answered your questions.

Regards

Anne


>  
> Kind regards
>  
> Beat Wolf
> 
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