Hi Andrea
All the transformation information is stored in the XML file that  
MBuilder (0.7) uses to compile it's DDL for Ensembl core databases. I  
am sure the ensembl mart team will be happy to provide you the latest  
version

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On 2011-03-12, at 11:15, "Andrea Edwards" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello
>
> I was wondering if there were any documents showing how the ensembl
> marts were created from the main ensembl databases. Specifically i was
> hoping there were documents describing what tables were selected as  
> main
> tables for the marts and how the dimension tables were mapped to the
> main tables.
>
> As an example the ensembl_mart_61 contains a main table for human  
> named
> translation_main (this is an abbreviation of the name but its obvious
> which one i mean) and this has a field called
> protein_feature_prints_bool which is essentially a boolean field
> indicating whether a protein translation is assocated with a row in  
> the
> PRINTS dimension table protein_feature_prints_dm. If the translation
> does have a row in this dimension table then I am guessing it has a
> PRINTS domain in it!
>
> The core database itself however has a table called translation which
> represents, well, a translation. Translations are linked to rows in a
> table called 'protein_feature' which in turn has a foreign key called
> analysis_id which links to an 'analysis' table with fields 'database'
> and 'program'. So in this schema, a translation is associated with a
> PRINTS annotation if it is linked to a 'protein_feature' record  
> which is
> in turn linked to an 'analysis' record with the text 'PRINTS'  
> somewhere
> in both/either the database/program fields.
>
> I am interested in how the biomart software is configured with 'rules'
> to create the mart schema from the database schema. Is there a
> configuration file with these rules in that I could look at? Is  
> there a
> worked example? As an academic exercise I'd like to recreate the  
> ensembl
> marts. I have the biomart user manual but even with that document I do
> not know how to recreate the ensembl marts
>
> I am NOT specifically interested in protein domains. I used the PRINTS
> example purely for illustrative purposes as I thought it was a
> straightforward example. I am interested in how you specify the  
> 'rules'
> to get from a schema to a mart.
>
> thanks a lot
>
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