Dear biomaRt users, No biomaRt queries will be possible between March 7th 4pm - March 8th 6pm (UK time) due to a major downtime of the BioMart central server (see forward below). Cheers, Steffen >Subject:[mart-dev] Fwd: Major Downtime March 7th 4pm - March 8th 6pm >From:Arek Kasprzyk <arek at="" ebi.ac.uk=""> >Date:Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:27:48 -0500 >To:mart-announce at ebi.ac.uk >CC: mart-dev at ebi.ac.uk >As a consequence BioMart central server will be offline during this time (GMT) >Please see below for details. >apologies, >a. Begin forwarded message: > From: Pete Jokinen <pete at="" ebi.ac.uk=""> > Date: March 4, 2008 12:16:47 PM GMT-05:00 > To: Systems-announce at ebi.ac.uk > Subject: Major Downtime March 7th 4pm - March 8th 6pm > > Dear Users, > > Note, that the timing has changed (downtime shorter than announced > earlier)! > > There will be major disruption to the EBI IT infrastructure on March > 7th-8th. This is due to a combination of Data Center electrical work > and storage migrations (they were planned to be done earlier this > year, but were postponed). During this period we will provide a > temporary read only ftp service and static web service, but not much > more (machines like the alphaservers that are in the EBI building will > be available). Please note that the operation involves the Sanger > Institute and external contractors, so the timing cannot be changed. > > The downtime should start on Friday 7th at 4pm. We will do our best to > have the services back to normal as soon as possible. Current > expectation is at 6pm on March 8th. > > Best Regards, > > Systems