Hi Kathrin, Unimart will be re-added to the central BioMart service soon, for now you can query the Uniprot BioMart service directly by doing: unimart = useMart("unimart",dataset="uniprot",host="www.ebi.ac.uk ",path="/uniprot/biomart/martservice") Best, Steffen On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Steffen Durinck <sdurinck@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kathrin, > > It looks like the BioMart server got upgraded and now includes the latest > Ensembl version 71. > They might have forgotten to add unimart in this upgrade and to find out > we need to email the BioMart users list at users@biomart.org > I will do this and get back to you to let you know what is going on. > Hopefully they can re-add unimart or provide us with an alternate URL to > send our queries to. > > Best, > Steffen > > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 3:20 AM, Kathrin Otte [guest] < > guest@bioconductor.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> since this weekend I can't no longer connect to uniprot Biomart services >> via biomaRt (which worked pretty fine before) receiving the following error: >> >> > uni <- useMart("unimart",dataset="uniprot") >> Fehler in useMart("unimart", dataset = "uniprot") : >> Incorrect BioMart name, use the listMarts function to see which BioMart >> databases are available >> >> In fact, unimart is missing from listMarts(). I tried with R 2.14.1 and >> biomaRt_2.10.0 and also R 3.0.1 and biomaRt 2.16.0 leading to the same >> result. >> >> Any suggestions what is going on? >> >> Thanks a lot for your help, >> Kathrin >> >> -- output of sessionInfo(): >> >> > sessionInfo() >> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> locale: >> [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C >> [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8 >> [5] LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8 >> [7] LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C >> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C >> >> attached base packages: >> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >> >> other attached packages: >> [1] biomaRt_2.10.0 >> >> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): >> [1] RCurl_1.95-3 XML_3.95-0.1 >> >> -- >> Sent via the guest posting facility at bioconductor.org. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]