Ensembl BioMart is a good way to retrieve textual data for features that are represented in the Ensembl Genome Browser.
- Data can be exported in text format for use in other bioinformatics analysis tools
- In some cases, you can retrieve data that are not readily visible in the browser itself, such as less-common histone modification features
- You can retrieve targeted sets of sequences or features from specific species or molecules of interest, targeting only the attributes you wish to retrieve