[DAS] Couldn't instantiate datasource ensembl1834_bridge

[Andreas Kahari]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:30:27PM +0100, Steven Van Vooren wrote:
> Dear DAS-list,
> 
> I want to serve textual annotations (from a text mining
> process) on clones on the human genome, and visualise these
> in the Ensembl genome browser web site (by entering the url
> to my own DAS source). For this, I am trying to install and
> configure a DAS server. I understand that all I need is an
> "annotation server" and that I should use the ensembl DAS
> servlet.sanger.ac.uk:8080/das as "reference server" somehow.
>
> However, from the documentation at
> http://www.ensembl.org/Docs/das_server_v1.2.pdf and the docs
> on http://www.biojava.org/dazzle/ I gather that I should
> configure kaka.sanger.ac.uk as a data source for the reference
> server.

The kaka server has been replaced by

    ensembldb.ensembl.org

I'm no Dazzle expert, but this could be your problem.

The name change was announce in August by James Stalker on
ensembl-dev and ensembl-announce:

    Hello all,

    Those of you who use our public MySQL server will
    be interested to know that it is changing name from
    kaka.sanger.ac.uk to ensembldb.ensembl.org.  Username is
    still "anonymous", there is still no password, and the port
    remains the standard 3306.  In fact, nothing has changed
    except the name.

    Both kaka and ensembldb names will work for the near
    future, but eventually the kaka hardware will be replaced
    and the kaka name may well stop working.  We intend
    ensembldb.ensembl.org to be the long-term name for this
    resource, so it's probably a good idea to start updating any
    scripts that rely on the old name.

    Please mail ensembl-dev at ebi.ac.uk if you have any questions.

    Regards,

    James



I hope this solves it.

Regards,
Andreas



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