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Extracting data with BioMart

Tables of Ensembl data can be downloaded via the highly customisable BioMart data mining tool. The easy-to-use web-based tool allows extraction of data without any programming knowledge or understanding of the underlying database structure.

screenshot of the biomart interface

BioMart tutorials and FAQs


BioMart R package, RESTful access and API