<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi Simon,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the question! No, it is not possible to access those data using the Perl API. Data from Ensembl Beta is available via GraphQL <a href="https://beta.ensembl.org/help/articles/using-graph-ql">https://beta.ensembl.org/help/articles/using-graph-ql</a>, which is currently available as a beta service. We'd advise caution in use as we cannot guarantee that breaking changes will be introduced as it develops. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and regards </div><div>Jorge </div><div><br></div><div>
Dr Jorge Batista da Rocha<br>Ensembl Outreach Project Leader<br>European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12 May 2025, at 13:35, Simon Andrews <simon.andrews@babraham.ac.uk> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We have some existing Perl API scripts we use to process genomes for an analysis tool we maintain. For genomes in the main Ensembl repository they work very nicely.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We’ve had a request to provide support for the new Opossum genome assembly, which currently is only on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://rapid.ensembl.org/">rapid.ensembl.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://beta.ensembl.org/">beta.ensembl.org</a>. Is there any way to access the underlying data for these pre-release genomes in the API? Is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://beta.ensembl.org/">beta.ensembl.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>even built off the same underlying API or is there a new version in the works?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Any pointers would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br>Thanks<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Simon.<o:p></o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Dev mailing list </span><a href="mailto:Dev@ensembl.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Dev@ensembl.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Posting guidelines and subscribe/unsubscribe info:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_ensembl.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://lists.ensembl.org/mailman/listinfo/dev_ensembl.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Ensembl Blog:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.ensembl.info/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://www.ensembl.info/</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>