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Error in getBM

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erockkirk ▴ 20

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There seems to be an error with the getBM function in biomaRt. The below code was working 3 days ago and now returns an error message. Any help would be appreciated. I'm working in R (version 3.6.0).

mart <- biomaRt::useMart(biomart = "ensembl", + dataset = "hsapiensgeneensembl", + host = 'http://www.ensembl.org')

ttg <- biomaRt::getBM( + attributes = c('mirbaseaccession', + 'mirbaseid', + 'mirbasetransname'), + mart = mart)

Error in biomaRt::getBM(attributes = c("mirbaseaccession", "mirbaseid", : The query to the BioMart webservice returned an invalid result: biomaRt expected a character string of length 1.

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 5.4 years ago by YinCY ▴ 20 • written 5.5 years ago by erockkirk ▴ 20

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The same problem happens to me right now, and it happened to me a couple of weeks ago too. . it's related to the web server of Ensembl, it's not working well. Hope there is a solution... Maybe it's a matter of time.

ADD REPLY • link 5.5 years ago rgeysels • 0

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one solution I found was to use a different host, or alternate to whichever is working. host = 'http://useast.ensembl.org'

ADD REPLY • link 5.5 years ago erockkirk ▴ 20

score 2 · Answer 1 · 2019-07-17

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YinCY ▴ 20

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HangZhou, zhejaing

Try use useEnsembl() function instead of useMart() which can choose different mirror, that you can choose the one that closest to you. useEnsembl(mirror = c("eastusa", "westusa", "asia"))

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2019-07-15

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Puks ▴ 10

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Estonia

A previous post on this might be helpful for you: https://support.bioconductor.org/p/121331/

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