A community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding both current and future U.S. federal funder requirements for sharing research articles and research data.
Biology and Life Sciences Research Data Repositories
Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. This list includes more than 1800 repositories of life sciences data.
Links to a simple search for "biology" in Data.gov. The U.S. government is required by the OPEN Government Data Act of 2018 to publish federal agencies' information online as open data, using standardized, machine-readable data formats.
Open Data Repositories
A short list of popular sites that host user-submitted research data, making it discoverable, openly accessible, and maintaining and preserving it for the long-term. You can host your own data here too!
Dryad is an open access repository of research data, particularly data underlying scientific and medical publications. Dryad’s intent is to make this data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Submissions receive a persistent DOI.
GitHub provides Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers distributed version control and source code management functionality. GitHub is a popular host for open-source projects, with over 28 million publicly available project repositories.
Zenodo is an open access repository developed under the European OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. It allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artifacts. Each submission receives a persistent digital object identifier (DOI).
The Dataverse Project is an open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. It facilitates making data available to others, and allows you to replicate others' work more easily. Researchers, journals, data authors, publishers, data distributors, and affiliated institutions all receive academic credit and web visibility.
Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) is an openly accessible database and bioinformatics resource. MGI provides access to data on the genetics, genomics, and biology of the laboratory mouse, one of the most widely used model organisms in modern science. The MGI has been available online since 1994!
