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		After: A biologically-centered subset of Scientific Data's recommended repositories and standards. Please see the Scientific Data website for the full list of repositories and standards across all domains. Scientific Data is an open access, peer-reviewed Nature Research data journal published by Springer Nature.

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Name	Abbreviation	Type	Domain	Taxonomy	Related Database	Related Standard	Related Policy	In Collection/Recommendation
Ag Data Commons	Ag Data Commons	Database	Agricultural and Food Process Engineering Agricultural products Agriculture Agroecology Agroecosystem Plus 35 more...	All Animalia Archaea Bacteria Chromista Plus 4 more...	ITIS	FORCE11 DC RDF Schema.org DC ISO19115 Plus 2 more...	Scientific Data Data Policy	AgBioData
Archaeology Data Service	ADS	Database	Classical Archeology History Humanities Natural Sciences	None	None	None	Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Scientific Data Data Policy	None
ArrayExpress	ArrayExpress	Database	Chromatin immunoprecipitation - DNA microarray (ChIP-chip) Chromatin immunoprecipitation - DNA sequencing (ChIP-seq) DNA microarray Gene expression data Genotyping Plus 4 more...	All	BioSD Expression Atlas SMD DGVA ClinVar Plus 3 more...	EFO MAGE-TAB MIAME/Env MINSEQE OmicsDI XML format Plus 2 more...	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Plus 47 more...	Data Citation Implementation DNA Microarray ELIXIR node contributed resources
Australian Antarctic Data Centre	AADC	Database	Atmospheric Science Biology Earth Science Environmental Sciences Geology Plus 4 more...	All	GBIF	None	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	None
Australian Open Data Network Portal	AODN	Database	Climate Marine environment Natural Sciences Oceanography	All	None	None	Scientific Data Data Policy	None
BioAssay Ontology	BAO	Standard	Assay Biochemistry Biological process Biomedical Science Cell Plus 6 more...	All	PubChem	UO SIO OWL ENM BAO-GPCR	Scientific Data Data Policy	Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation eTRIKS Standards Starter Pack
Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets	BioGRID	Database	Gene Life Science Molecular interaction Protein	Arabidopsis thaliana Drosophila melanogaster Saccharomyces cerevisiae Schizosaccharomyces pombe	PhenoM SGD PomBase APID Interactomes DrugBank Plus 7 more...	MIRO MITAB PSI-MI XML	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Biological Magnetic Resonance Databank	BMRB	Database	Life Science Molecular entity Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy Spectrum Structure	All	PDBe Protein Data Bank Japan RCSB PDB wwPDB	PDB NMR-STAR nmrCV CCPN data model NMR-ML	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Plus 19 more...	Data Citation Implementation
caNanoLab	caNanoLab	Database	Bioactivity Biomedical Science Nanoparticle Nanotechnology Structure	Homo sapiens Mus musculus	None	NPO	Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors Elsevier - Lancet Infectious Diseases - Information for Authors GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Elsevier's Data Policy Plus 9 more...	Data Citation Implementation
ChEMBL	ChEMBL	Database	None	None	None	None	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines F1000Research Data Policy HRB Open Research Scientific Data Data Policy Wellcome Open Research Data Guidelines Plus 3 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR node contributed resources
ClinicalTrials.gov	ClinicalTrials.gov	Database	Biomedical Science Disease Drug Preclinical and clinical studies	Homo sapiens	PPMI EUCTR EudraCT	CTR-XML	AHRQ Public Access to Federally Funded Research Elsevier's Data Policy Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - Circulation - Research Guidelines American Society of Clinical Oncology - Journal of Clinical Oncology - Manuscript Guidelines Scientific Data Data Policy Plus 2 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank	CXIDB	Database	Imaging Life Science Molecular structure X-ray diffraction	All	None	CXI	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines F1000Research Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 13 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Crystallography Open Database	COD	Database	None	None	None	None	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines F1000Research Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 HRB Open Research Plus 12 more...	Data Citation Implementation Chemistry
Database of genomic structural VARiation	dbVar	Database	Biomedical Science Genetic polymorphism Genome Life Science	All	DGVA ClinVar DGV	VarioML	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research Plus 34 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Database of Genomic Variants Archive	DGVA	Database	Curated information Genetic polymorphism Genomics Life Science Structure	All	ArrayExpress ENA EGA Ensembl dbVar Plus 1 more...	None	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research F1000Research Data Policy GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 24 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes	dbGaP	Database	Biomedical Science Epigenetics Gene expression data Genetic polymorphism Genotype Plus 2 more...	Homo sapiens	ImmPort BioSample NSRR	SRA-XML VCF	EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards NIH Policy on sharing of model organisms for Biomedical Research Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Plus 37 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Database of Interacting Proteins	DIP	Database	Life Science Protein Protein interactions	All	APID Interactomes VirHostNet iRefWeb mentha HIPPIE	MIRO MITAB FASTA	EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 Plus 8 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx)
Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism	dbSNP	Database	Genetic polymorphism Genome Life Science Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)	Anas platyrhynchos Gallus gallus Glycine max Homo sapiens Oreochromis niloticus Plus 2 more...	PolymiRTS T1DBase EVA ClinVar mirDNMR	FASTA	Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials Plus 35 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories National Child Development Study (UK)
DNA Data Bank of Japan	DDBJ	Database	Amino acid sequence DNA sequence data Genome Life Science Nucleotide Plus 1 more...	All	GenBank ENA NextDB JGA	MIxS FASTA GenBank Sequence Format NCBITAXON FASTQ Sequence and Sequence Quality Format Plus 1 more...	Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Plus 48 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Dryad	Dryad	Database	Curated information General purpose Literature curation	All	None	Common Metadata Elements for Cataloging Biomedical Datasets Schema.org	Joint Data Archiving Policy (JDAP) American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Plus 27 more...	Data Citation Implementation BMJ - British Medical Journal
eagle-i Research Resource Ontology	ERO	Standard	Biomedical Science Life Science	All	OBO	BRO OBI VIVO-ISF	Scientific Data Data Policy	OBO Foundry Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation
EarthChem	EarthChem	Database	Chemistry Earth Science Environmental Sciences Natural Sciences	Not applicable	IEDA Data Collections MGDS SESAR Catalog	None	Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors American Geophysical Union (AGU) Publications Data Policy Elsevier - Lancet Infectious Diseases - Information for Authors Elsevier's Data Policy Plus 5 more...	Chemistry
Electron Microscopy Data Bank	EMDB	Database	Electron density map Life Science Microscopy Structure X-ray diffraction	All	CCD PDBe RCSB PDB EMPIAR	PDB mmCIF	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials Plus 30 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Environmental Data Initiative Data Repository	EDI	Database	Agriculture Atmospheric Science Biology Botany Earth Science Plus 6 more...	All	None	EML	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	None
Environment Ontology	ENVO	Standard	Disease Ecology Environmental Sciences Environmental material Life Science Plus 4 more...	Algae Archaea Bacteria Eukaryota Fungi Plus 3 more...	GOLD Gramene MCDRP OBO MeRy-B	CHEBI PATO BFO OBO_REL MIxS - MIMARKS Plus 7 more...	Scientific Data Data Policy	OBO Foundry
Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources	EuPathDB	Database	Biomedical Science Genome Life Science	Anncaliia Babesia Crithidia Cryptosporidium Edhazardia Plus 19 more...	FungiDB CryptoDB GiardiaDB MicrosporidiaDB PlasmoDB Plus 4 more...	GFF3 OBI FASTA	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
European Nucleotide Archive	ENA	Database	Amino acid sequence Annotation Bioinformatics tools and formats Data coordination Data management Plus 11 more...	All	GenBank BioSD DDBJ Europe PMC EGA Plus 5 more...	SRA-XML NCBITAXON MIASPPE FASTA INSDSeq Plus 4 more...	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Plus 53 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR node contributed resources
European Variation Archive	EVA	Database	Biomedical Science DNA structural variation Genetic polymorphism Genetics Genomics Plus 3 more...	All	ENA EGA dbSNP UniProtKB ClinVar Plus 2 more...	HUGO SO	Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials Plus 25 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Experimental data repository for KInetic MOdels of biological SYStems	KiMoSys	Database	Enzyme Fluxomics Life Science Metabolite Metabolomics Plus 1 more...	All	None	SBML CellML	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation
Experimental Factor Ontology	EFO	Standard	Assay Functional genomics Independent variable Life Science	All	BioSD Expression Atlas SCDE ArrayExpress KUPKB Plus 2 more...	UBERON FAANG metadata sample specification standard FAANG metadata experiment specification standard CSEO	Scientific Data Data Policy	Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation eTRIKS Standards Starter Pack
FAIRsharing	FAIRsharing	Database	Agriculture Biomedical Science Earth Science Environmental Sciences Humanities Plus 2 more...	All	None	Schema.org Bioschemas SRAO DRAO FAIR Plus 1 more...	EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards F1000Research Data Policy Gates Open Research Data Guidelines GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Elsevier's Data Policy Plus 10 more...	None
figshare	figshare	Database	Data sharing Data visualization General purpose Image	All	OSF	Schema.org	Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Nature Publishing Group - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Nature Publishing Group - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials F1000Research Data Policy Plus 26 more...	Data Citation Implementation
FlowRepository	FlowRepository	Database	Flow cytometry assay Life Science	All	None	FuGEFlow FCS MIFlowCyt Gating-ML	Cell Press - Cell Host & Microbe - Information for Authors Cell Press - Developmental Cell - Information for Authors Scientific Data Data Policy Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors Cell Press - Current Biology - Information for Authors Plus 8 more...	Data Citation Implementation
FlyBase	FlyBase	Database	Allele Anatomy Bibliography Cell line Chromosomal aberration Plus 17 more...	Drosophila Drosophila ananassae Drosophila erecta Drosophila grimshawi Drosophila melanogaster Plus 8 more...	DRSC-FGR SGD WormBase GenomeRNAi BDGP Plus 5 more...	SO FB-DV FBbi FBsp GO Plus 8 more...	Elsevier's Data Policy Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Rockefeller University Press - Journal Of Experimental Medicine - Data Deposition Scientific Data Data Policy Rockefeller University Press - Journal Of Cell Biology - Data Deposition Plus 2 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
GenBank	GenBank	Database	DNA sequence data Gene Genome Life Science Nucleic acid sequence	All	DDBJ GENI-ACT IRD ENA VirHostNet Plus 3 more...	SRA-XML NCBITAXON FASTA GenBank Sequence Format INSDSeq Plus 3 more...	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Plus 58 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Gene Expression Omnibus	GEO	Database	DNA microarray Gene expression data Genome Life Science	All	Nematode.net SMD ImmPort BioSample ENCODE Plus 3 more...	MIAME/Env SOFT MIAME MINiML	American Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - Editorial Policies; Data Materials Availability Nature Publishing Group - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Plus 56 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories DNA Microarray
GenomeRNAi	GenomeRNAi	Database	Life Science RNA interference (RNAi)	Drosophila melanogaster Homo sapiens	FlyBase	None	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 Scientific Data Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 (for life sciences) Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Plus 4 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Global Biodiversity Information Facility	GBIF	Database	Biodiversity Bioinformatics tools and formats Life Science Taxonomic classification	All	Scratchpads Brazilian Flora 2020 REFLORA Atlas of Living Australia IPT - GBIF Australia Repository GBIF Spain IPT - GBIF Spain Repository Plus 25 more...	DwC TAPIR ABCD EML	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) international open data infrastructure
G-Node Data Infrastructure Services	GIN	Database	Neuroinformatics Neurophysiology Neuroscience	All	None	odML	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	None
Harvard Dataverse	Harvard Dataverse	Database	Data management Data sharing Experiment metadata General purpose Researcher data	All	Scholars Portal Dataverse TDR DataverseNL	Schema.org	Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Elsevier - Lancet Infectious Diseases - Information for Authors Elsevier's Data Policy Plus 10 more...	None
High Energy Physics Data Repository	HEPData	Database	Chemistry High Energy Physics Natural Sciences Physics	Not applicable	None	Schema.org	Elsevier's Data Policy Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Chemistry
Image Data Resource	IDR	Database	Biological imaging Digital pathology High-content screen Life Science Super-resolution microscopy	Arabidopsis thaliana Drosophila Homo sapiens Mus musculus Saccharomyces cerevisiae Plus 2 more...	Ensembl OMERO	OME-XML CMPO GO	Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Scientific Data Data Policy	Euro-BioImaging
Immunology Database and Analysis Portal	ImmPort	Database	Biomedical Science Immunology Life Science Preclinical and clinical studies	Homo sapiens Mus musculus	GEO SRA Gene dbGaP UniProtKB	OBI GO MIAME MIFlowCyt FCS Plus 4 more...	Scientific Data Data Policy	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Influenza Research Database	IRD	Database	Biomedical Science Gene expression data Genomics Proteomics Sequence feature Plus 1 more...	Influenza virus	GenBank CSA RefSeq BEI RCSB PDB Plus 1 more...	OBI IAO OGMS IDO FASTA Plus 6 more...	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
IntAct molecular interaction database	IntAct	Database	Binding Citation Experiment metadata Free text Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment Plus 7 more...	All	MINT Gene3D neXtProt APID Interactomes Reactome Plus 7 more...	CHEBI MIRO PSI-MI XML PSI-PAR XML GO Plus 5 more...	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission EMBO Press Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 Plus 10 more...	Data Citation Implementation International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx) ELIXIR node contributed resources
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS	Database	Life Science Taxonomic classification	All	Ag Data Commons	None	Scientific Data Data Policy PLOS Recommended Data Repositories	Data Citation Implementation
International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative	INDI	Database	Biomedical Science Data sharing Diffusion tensor imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) Life Science Plus 2 more...	Homo sapiens	NITRC ABIDE	MIfMRI	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 (for life sciences) BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 6 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Japanese Genotype-phenotype Archive	JGA	Database	Biomedical Science Epigenetics Gene expression data Genetic polymorphism Genotype Plus 2 more...	Homo sapiens	DDBJ	SRA-XML VCF	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 (for life sciences) Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 2 Plus 3 more...	None
JRC Data Catalogue	JRC Data Catalogue	Database	Economics Engineering Science Life Science Natural Sciences Social Sciences Plus 1 more...	All	None	DCAT ADMS	Scientific Data Data Policy JRC Data Policy	None
Life Science Database Archive	LSDB Archive	Database	Data sharing Life Science	All	None	None	Scientific Data Data Policy	None

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