<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm attempting to download data using GRCh37's BioMart MartService REST API (using XML Query). I've successfully used this exact approach 2-3 months ago. However, my recent attempts return errors. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yesterday, BioMart was down. Now that it's back up, I'm getting the following error:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="monospace, monospace">Query ERROR: caught BioMart::Exception::Database: Could not connect to mysql database ensembl_mart_80: DBI connect('database=ensembl_mart_80;host=ensdb-5-g-03;port=5637','ensro',...) failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ensdb-5-g-03' (111) at /ensemblweb/grch37/wwwmart/www_80/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Configuration/DBLocation.pm line 98.</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">You may see this error for yourself by visiting <a href="http://grch37.ensembl.org/biomart/martservice/?query=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%22+encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3C%21DOCTYPE+Query%3E%0A%3CQuery++virtualSchemaName+%3D+%22default%22+formatter+%3D+%22TSV%22+header+%3D+%220%22+uniqueRows+%3D+%221%22%0A++++++++count+%3D+%22%22+datasetConfigVersion+%3D+%220.6%22+%3E%0A++++%3CDataset+name+%3D+%22hsapiens_gene_ensembl%22+interface+%3D+%22default%22+%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22ensembl_gene_id%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22hgnc_symbol%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22gene_biotype%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22external_gene_name%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22chromosome_name%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22start_position%22+%2F%3E%0A++++++++%3CAttribute+name+%3D+%22end_position%22+%2F%3E%0A++++%3C%2FDataset%3E%0A%3C%2FQuery%3E%0A">this URL</a> (my GET request with the XML query). Note that this only happens when I use the GRCh37 API (<a href="http://grch37.ensembl.org/biomart/martservice/">http://grch37.ensembl.org/biomart/martservice/</a>), but it works with the latest API (<a href="http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martservice/">http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martservice/</a>). </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Any ideas as to why the GRCh37 API is returning an error? Do you think it has something to do with BioMart being down yesterday? </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bruno</font></div></div>