{"id":8,"date":"2019-08-30T11:10:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-02-21T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:31:32","slug":"installing-the-perl-api","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/installing-the-perl-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing the Perl API"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you start this course, you&#8217;ll need to install the Ensembl APIs. The course was taught using Ensembl release 71, which can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/api\/api_installation.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/api\/api_installation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">downloaded from here<\/a>, following the instructions on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a video tutorial on installing the APIs here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Install the Ensembl APIs (GIT or ftp)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nxTFcKi1nDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you wish to use an up-to-date version of Ensembl, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/api\/api_installation.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/api\/api_installation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">download the latest APIs from here<\/a>. Note that some of the results you get from your scripts will have changed and there is a very small chance that API methods will have changed, so your scripts will need to be slightly different. If in doubt, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/Doxygen\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ensembl.org\/info\/docs\/Doxygen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documentation for your methods<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you start this course, you&#8217;ll need to install the Ensembl APIs. The course was taught using Ensembl release 71, which can be downloaded from here, following the instructions on the page. There&#8217;s a video tutorial on installing the APIs here: If you wish to use an up-to-date version of Ensembl, you can download the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/training\/online\/courses\/ensembl-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}