On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Steffen Durinck wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> The BioMart central service seems to have been down the last few days.  
> Yesterday it came back on-line but when doing a query to read the 
> central server registry gives:
> http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martservice?type=registry

there have been problems with people hammering the central server with 
martservice requests. We are investigating how to solve this - probably IP 
banning I think.

I think the problem below is with the proxy - hopefully I will restart the 
server with the correct settings in a few minutes

thanks
Damian



> 
> <MartRegistry>
>   <virtualSchema name="dicty" visible="0">
>     <MartURLLocation default="1" displayName="DICTYBASE (NORTHWESTERN)" 
> host="www.dictybase.org" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="dicty" path="" 
> port="80" redirect="1" serverVirtualSchema="dictyMart" visible="1" />
>   </virtualSchema>
>   <virtualSchema name="default" visible="0">
>     <MartURLLocation default="1" displayName="ENSEMBL 40 (SANGER)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="ensembl" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="SEQUENCE 40 (SANGER)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="sequence" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="0" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="SNP 40 (SANGER)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="snp" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="VEGA 40 (SANGER)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="vega" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="UNIPROT PROTOTYPE 4-5 (EBI)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="uniprot" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="MSD PROTOTYPE 4 (EBI)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="msd" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>     <MartURLLocation default="0" displayName="WORMBASE CURRENT (CSHL)" 
> host="web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk" includeDatasets="" martUser="" name="wormbase" 
> path="/biomart/martservice" port="9004" serverVirtualSchema="default" 
> visible="1" />
>   </virtualSchema>
> </MartRegistry>
> 
> 
> The host is said to be web50-node4.ebi.ac.uk but this is not accessible.
> Any idea what is happening or how we can access the web services again?
> 
> best,
> Steffen
> 
> -- 
> Steffen Durinck, Ph.D.
> 
> Oncogenomics Section
> Pediatric Oncology Branch
> National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
> URL: http://home.ccr.cancer.gov/oncology/oncogenomics/
> 
> Phone: 301-402-8103
> Address:
> Advanced Technology Center,
> 8717 Grovemont Circle
> Gaithersburg, MD 20877
> 

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