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Thanks Mike. I never heard about useEnsembl() before. That sounds like a 
nice addition. There are a few packages maintained by the core team 
(OrganismDbi, GenomicFeatures, etc...) where we still use useMart(). 
These packages are victims of the Ensembl Mart flakiness almost every 
day on the build report :-/ Sounds like we should really give 
useEnsembl() a try ;-)

I also see that the use of useMart() vs useEnsembl() is still about 80% 
vs 20% across all Bioconductor software packages. I wonder if you would 
consider advertising the latter a little bit e.g. by mentioning it in 
the man page for useMart() and also maybe by emitting a note or warning 
when people use useMart() to access the ensembl Mart. What do you think?

Cheers,
H.
On 04/11/2021 15:02, Mike Smith wrote: