<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I am just starting working with <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Ensembl</span> API. I am not really experienced neither with <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Ensembl</span> or bioinformatics itself,so I am stuck in a problem that seems to be easy to solve.</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">As a test and proof of concept, I am interested to retrieve information of a comparison in phylip format. In particular, the provided example</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Compara_Alignments?align=548&db=core&g=ENSG00000171105&r=19%3A7112266-7294045" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">ensembl</span>.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Compara_Alignments?align=548&db=core&g=ENSG00000171105&r=19%3A7112266-7294045</a></div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">when exported into a phylip format, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="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" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">ensembl</span>.org/Homo_sapiens/Export/Output/Location/Alignment?align=548;db=core;g=ENSG00000171105;output=alignment;r=19:7112266-7294045;format=phylip;_format=Text</a></div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I have however seen that the employment of wget is discouraged and the <span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)">Ensembl</span> API should be used instead.</div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Reading the available documentation, I fell that I should use the Compara API Tutorial, </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<a href="http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/api/compara/compara_tutorial.html" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">ensembl</span>.org/info/docs/api/compara/compara_tutorial.html</a><br>

</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">but I don't really understand it or how to apply it to my objective.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The question is, can anyone orient me on how to proceed? <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thanks for your attention,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Manuel </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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