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      Dear Ensembl devs,<br>
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      I'm still having troubles with the Ensembl Perl API for this
      command (for human data on GRCh37):<br>
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      variant_effect_predictor.pl --vcf -o STDOUT --cache --dir_cache
      /home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/.vep --fork 15
      --force_overwrite --species homo_sapiens --assembly GRCh37 --port
      3337 ...<br>
      <br>
      DBD::mysql::db selectall_arrayref failed: Can't read dir of '.'
      (errno: 5) at
/home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/perl/Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm
      line 1766.<br>
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      -------------------- WARNING ----------------------<br>
      MSG: homo_sapiens is not a valid species name (check DB and API
      version)<br>
      FILE: Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm LINE: 1327<br>
      CALLED BY: Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm  LINE: 1102<br>
      Date (localtime)    = Wed Aug 31 10:01:43 2016<br>
      Ensembl API version = 84<br>
      ---------------------------------------------------<br>
      <br>
      -------------------- EXCEPTION --------------------<br>
      MSG: Can not find internal name for species 'homo_sapiens'<br>
      STACK Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry::get_adaptor
/home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/perl/Bio/EnsEMBL/Registry.pm:1104<br>
      STACK main::connect_to_dbs
/home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/bin/variant_effect_predictor.pl:1264<br>
      STACK main::configure
/home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/bin/variant_effect_predictor.pl:811<br>
      STACK toplevel
/home/cbrcmod/scratch/modules/out/modulebin/VEP/84/bin/variant_effect_predictor.pl:145<br>
      Date (localtime)    = Wed Aug 31 10:01:43 2016<br>
      Ensembl API version = 84<br>
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      Best wishes,<br>
      Chris<br>
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      On 31/08/16 09:59, Thomas Maurel wrote:<br>
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      Dear Julien,
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      <div class="">Our ensembl gene mart via the R package seems to be
        working fine for me this morning:</div>
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      <div class="">> mart <-
        useMart("ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL",dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl",host="<a
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.ensembl.org" class="">www.ensembl.org</a>")</div>
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        <div class="">>
getBM(attributes=c('ensembl_gene_id','ensembl_transcript_id','description'),filters
          = 'ensembl_gene_id', values = 'ENSG00000252303', mart = mart)</div>
        <div class="">  ensembl_gene_id ensembl_transcript_id          
                                                             
          description</div>
        <div class="">1 ENSG00000252303       ENST00000516494 RNA, U6
          small nuclear 280, pseudogene [Source:HGNC
          Symbol;Acc:HGNC:47243]</div>
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      <div class="">Could you please let me know:</div>
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        <div class="">1) The mart that you are using</div>
        <div class="">2) The ensembl website that you are pointing to</div>
        <div class="">3) The error that you are getting</div>
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      <div class="">Thanks a lot,</div>
      <div class="">Regards,</div>
      <div class="">Thomas</div>
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            <div class="">On 31 Aug 2016, at 07:51, Julien Roux <<a
                moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:julien.roux@unil.ch"
                class="">julien.roux@unil.ch</a>> wrote:</div>
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              <div class="">Dear Ensembl team,<br class="">
                <br class="">
                Thanks for bringing the website up, it was missed a lot!
                ;)<br class="">
                <br class="">
                This morning I have trouble to connect to the database
                via the R package BiomaRt (the web version of biomart
                works just fine). Is this related to the downtime?<br
                  class="">
                <br class="">
                Best,<br class="">
                <br class="">
                Julien<br class="">
                <br class="">
                -- <br class="">
                Julien Roux<br class="">
                Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of
                Lausanne, Switzerland<br class="">
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href="http://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuinst/people/post-docs--associates/dr-julien-roux.html"
                  class="">http://www.unil.ch/dee/home/menuinst/people/post-docs--associates/dr-julien-roux.html</a><br
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                Tel: +41 78 700 2931<br class="">
                Twitter: @_julien_roux<br class="">
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            <div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">--</div>
            <div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Thomas Maurel<br
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              Bioinformatician - Ensembl Production Team<br class="">
              European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)<br class="">
              European Molecular Biology Laboratory<br class="">
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