<div dir="ltr">That's odd. Both the website and webservices are unavailable. And from the biomart R package, I receive the following error message:<div><br></div><div><pre tabindex="0" class="" style="font-family:Monaco,monospace;font-size:12px;outline:none;border:none;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;line-height:17.399999618530273px;color:rgb(255,255,255);background-color:rgb(50,50,50);white-space:pre-wrap!important">
> 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 <a href="http://www.biomart.org">http://www.biomart.org</a> and verify if this website is available.
<span class="">Error: XML content does not seem to be XML: </span></pre></div><div><br></div><div>Anyone else encounter this issue? I should probably ping the BioConductor folks, but this was working until yesterday (Friday, 2/14/2014) afternoon.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br><div>--</div><div>Paul Rigor</div><div><a href="http://www.ics.uci.edu/~prigor" target="_blank">http://www.ics.uci.edu/~prigor</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:45 AM, steve trevanion <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:st3@sanger.ac.uk" target="_blank">st3@sanger.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Paul,<br>
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It's also OK for me, as is the uswest mirror. What error message are
you getting ?<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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<div>On 15/02/14 17:39, Paul Rigor wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Andy,
<div>Unfortunately, it's still down =\ </div>
<div>~Paul</div>
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<div>Paul Rigor</div>
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<div>"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature
exposed to our method of questioning" ~ Werner Karl
Heisenberg</div>
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</div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Andy
Yates <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ayates@ebi.ac.uk" target="_blank">ayates@ebi.ac.uk</a>></span>
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<div>Hi Paul</div>
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<div>I've not seen anything wrong with it from here in the
uk. Is it behaving better for you now?</div>
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<div>Andy<br>
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Sent from my tablet</div>
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On 15 Feb 2014, at 01:22, Paul Rigor <<a href="mailto:paul.rigor@uci.edu" target="_blank">paul.rigor@uci.edu</a>>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
<div>Just wondering if anyone else is having
trouble accessing biomart? I'm attempting to
access from southern California.</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Paul<br clear="all">
<div><br>
<div>--</div>
<div>
Paul Rigor</div>
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itself, but nature exposed to our method
of questioning" ~ Werner Karl Heisenberg</div>
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