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.
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.
How about a clear policy as to what forms of access are legal - a
sensible service interface suggests that bulk querying is legitimate surely?
Tom
