[BioC] Biomart with human genes NCBI 35/hg17

[Heidi Dvinge]

> Dear All,
>
>
> I'm trying to use the previous built (within Biomart)for human genes to
> get gene location, It seems like Ensembl 44 is the version I should use
> for NCBI 35/hg17, I did following:
>
> ensembl =useMart("ensembl_mart_44",archive=TRUE)
> listDatasets(ensembl)
> [1] dataset     description version
> <0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)
>
Are you sure this is even available? If you check at
http://www.ensembl.org/info/website/archives/index.html the closest they
have there is 46, but that's already NCBI36.

You might want to try contacting the Ensembl helpdesk directly.

HTH
\Heidi


> So you could see there is no dataset available,
> So if I do:
>
> ensembl
> =useMart("ensembl_mart_44",dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl",archive=TRUE)
> I got:
> Error in useDataset(mart = mart, dataset = dataset, verbose = verbose) :
>   The given dataset:  hsapiens_gene_ensembl , is not valid.  Correct
> dataset names can be obtained with the listDatasets function.
>
> has anyone come across the same problem?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Yan
>
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