Hi Ethan, I guess trying it direct at www.ensembl.org/biomart/martwsdl will get you going for now if its just the Madison to Toronto connection that is slow.
Cheers Damian On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Ethan Strauss <[email protected]>wrote: > For what it is worth, this problem seems to be pervasive at Promega (in > Madison, Wisconsin, US) and at least one other local computer that is not > going through the Promega network. > Ethan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Arek Kasprzyk [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:41 AM > To: Ethan Strauss; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mart-dev] Problems connecting with Biomart > > > Hi Ethan, > I just tried it from here (Toronto) and don't seem to have any problems. > Where are you trying to access it from? > > Does anyone else have the same problem as Ethan? > > A. > > > On 27/10/09 11:40 AM, "Ethan Strauss" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am just starting to use Biomart, but I have been having > fundamental > > issues connecting with it. My goals is to access Ensemble via SOAP using > > Biomart, but I can't get a connection. In fact, I almost can't even load > pages > > from www.biomart.org on my web browser. For most pages, they seem to > load > > after about 10-30 minutes and other pages, including all the > documentation > > pages I have tried, never load at all. When I try to access > programmatically > > using SOAP (C# 3.0 using .NET pointed to > > http://www.biomart.org/biomart/martwsdl) I get "unable to connect to > remote > > server" and "timeout" errors even when I set the timeout to very long > times > > (500 seconds is the longest I have tried). > > I have tried pinging www.biomart.org and that seems fine, so I > don't > > think there is a general connection issue. I can access the biomart at > ensembl > > through my browser without any issues. > > I can't get at the documentation at biomart.org, so I am not > really > > sure where to start. Can anyone help out with this issue? > > Thanks! > > Ethan > > > > Ethan Strauss Ph.D. > > Bioinformatics Scientist > > Promega Corporation > > 2800 Woods Hollow Rd. > > Madison, WI 53711 > > 608-274-4330 > > 800-356-9526 > > [email protected] > > >
