<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="ydpd8b27defyahoo_quoted_9758704350" class="ydpd8b27defyahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><i>Hello there:<br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><i>
</i><div><div id="ydpd8b27defyiv5292406835"><div><div class="ydpd8b27defyiv5292406835ydp4b3fc5b6yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><i>I have installed the Ensembl Biomart Perl API on a Linux machine following instructions at the Ensembl Biomart website. When I run the example file included in the installation, I get the following message.</i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>misha@misha-zakvaschik:~/biomart-perl/scripts$ perl apiExample_1.pl<br><br>Cached Registry Unavailable...<br><br>Running Complete Clean...<br><br><br><br> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br> <br> COULD NOT CONNECT TO DATABASE central_registry.CHECK YOUR SETTINGS<br> <br> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <br><br><br>Can't call method "getRegistryXML" on an undefined value at /home/misha/biomart-perl/lib/BioMart/Initializer.pm line 855.<br><br></div></div><div><i>The contents of line 855 are as follows.</i></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>my $regXML = $pointer->getRegistryXML();</span><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">P<i>lease help.</i></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><i>Thank you Misha</i><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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