On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Steffen Durinck wrote: > Is it possible that this is caused by people who e.g. try to annotate a > long list (>10000) of gene ids with GO annotation by looping over these > ids and firing a query for every id separately? I've noticed that users > of the biomaRt R package sometimes construct these loops although we > strongly advice against it.
think it is probably something similar but being fired off from Taverna pipelines cheers Damian > > best, > Steffen > > > Damian Smedley wrote: > > 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 > >> > >> > > > -- > 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 >
