Scheduled Maintenance – 3–5 November 2026
Due to scheduled infrastructure maintenance, Ensembl Archive sites will have significantly reduced capacity and availability from 3 to 5 November.
Ensembl Tools will be unavailable throughout this period, and no jobs can be processed.
We apologise for the inconvenience.

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