<html><body style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hi,<br><br>I am trying to retrieve an EPO multispecies alignment using the REST API (http://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/genomic_alignment_region). <br><br>The example on this page (http://rest.ensembl.org/documentation/info/compara_species_sets) gives allowable values for <code class="json">the "<span class="hljs-attribute">species_set_group</span>" parameter and I would like to use <span class="hljs-value"><span class="hljs-string">"17 eutherian mammals EPO".<br><br>This is what  <br><br>~: wget 'http://rest.ensembl.org/alignment/region/homo_sapiens/8:144276224-144276304?content-type=application/json;aligned=0&method=EPO&species_set_group=17 eutherian mammals EPO' -O -<br>--2016-03-10 19:50:30--  http://rest.ensembl.org/alignment/region/homo_sapiens/8:144276224-144276304?content-type=application/json;aligned=0&method=EPO&species_set_group=17%20eutherian%20mammals%20EPO<br>Resolving rest.ensembl.org (rest.ensembl.org)... 193.62.54.30<br>Connecting to rest.ensembl.org (rest.ensembl.org)|193.62.54.30|:80... connected.<br>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 400 Bad Request<br>2016-03-10 19:50:33 ERROR 400: Bad Request.<br></span></span></code><br><br>What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any suggestions.<br><br>Matthew<br><hr>Email sent using Optus Webmail</body></html>