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Name	Abbreviation	Type	Subject	Domain	Taxonomy	Related Database	Related Standard	Related Policy	In Collection/Recommendation
ArrayExpress	ArrayExpress	Database	Life Science	Chromatin immunoprecipitation - DNA microarray Chromatin immunoprecipitation - DNA sequencing DNA microarray Gene expression data Genotyping Plus 3 more...	All	BioSD Expression Atlas Bgee SMD DGVA Plus 8 more...	MAGE-TAB EFO MIAME/Env MINSEQE MIAME Plus 2 more...	MNI Open Research Elsevier's Data Policy HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 50 more...	Data Citation Implementation DNA Microarray ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources Genetics & Genomics Next
Australian Antarctic Data Centre	AADC	Database	Atmospheric Science Biology Earth Science Environmental Science Geology Plus 4 more...	None	All	GBIF	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	None
Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets	BioGRID	Database	Biochemistry Bioinformatics Chemical Biology Cheminformatics Life Science Plus 2 more...	Biocuration Protein interaction High-throughput screening Gene Interactome Plus 5 more...	Arabidopsis thaliana Drosophila melanogaster Homo sapiens Saccharomyces cerevisiae Schizosaccharomyces pombe	AnimalTFDB FlyBase PhenoM SGD PomBase Plus 22 more...	MIRO BTO MITAB PSI-MI XML CLO Plus 1 more...	PLOS Recommended Repositories Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy Cell Press - Current Biology - Information for Authors	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation
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	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 2 (for life sciences) Plus 20 more...	Data Citation Implementation
BioStudies	BioStudies	Database	Biomedical Science Life Science	Experiment metadata	All	ENA BioImage Archive	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council	EOSC-Life Resources ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases
caNanoLab	caNanoLab	Database	Biomedical Science Nanotechnology	Bioactivity Nanoparticle Structure	Homo sapiens Mus musculus	None	NPO	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors SciData Data Policy BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 9 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank	CXIDB	Database	Life Science	Molecular structure X-ray diffraction Imaging	All	None	CXI EDMI-Functional	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 14 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database	CARD	Database	Life Science	DNA sequence data Amino acid sequence Antimicrobial Phenotype	Bacteria	None	SO	PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
Crystallography Open Database	COD	Database	Chemistry	Molecular structure X-ray crystallography assay X-ray diffraction	All	None	SMILES	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 13 more...	Data Citation Implementation Chemistry
CSIRO Data Access Portal	CSIRO DAP	Database	Astrophysics and Astronomy Biomedical Science Chemistry Humanities Life Science Plus 5 more...	None	All	None	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories	Chemistry
DANS-EASY Electronic Archiving System	EASY	Database	Classical Archaeology Earth Science Economics Humanities Life Science Plus 2 more...	None	Not applicable	EDNA	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories Gates Open Research Data Guidelines	None
Database of genomic structural VARiation	dbVar	Database	Biomedical Science Life Science	Genetic polymorphism Genome	All	DGVA ClinVar DGV BovineMine	VarioML	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research Plus 37 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Genomic Variants Archive	DGVA	Database	Genomics Life Science	Genetic polymorphism Curated information Structure Sequence variant	All	ArrayExpress ENA EGA Ensembl dbVar Plus 1 more...	None	MNI Open Research HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 25 more...	Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes	dbGaP	Database	Biomedical Science Epigenetics Life Science	Gene expression data Genetic polymorphism Genotype Phenotype	Homo sapiens	ImmPort BioSample NSRR exRNA Atlas	VCF SRA-XML	IH Policy on sharing of model organisms for Biomedical Research NIH GWAS Sharing Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 39 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Interacting Proteins	DIP	Database	Biology Life Science	Protein interaction Protein	All	APID Interactomes STRING VirHostNet iRefWeb mentha Plus 2 more...	MITAB MIRO FASTA	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Plus 10 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx)
Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism	dbSNP	Database	Life Science	Genetic polymorphism Single nucleotide polymorphism Genome	Anas platyrhynchos Gallus gallus Glycine max Homo sapiens Oreochromis niloticus Plus 2 more...	PolymiRTS T1DBase EVA ClinVar mirDNMR Plus 4 more...	FASTA	NIH GWAS Sharing Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 38 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation National Child Development Study (UK) Genetics & Genomics Next
DNA Data Bank of Japan	DDBJ	Database	Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Life Science	Annotation DNA sequence data Amino acid sequence Genome Nucleotide Plus 1 more...	All	GenBank ENA NextDB JGA	NCBITAXON GenBank Sequence Format FASTA FASTQ Sequence and Sequence Quality Format INSDSeq Plus 1 more...	Elsevier's Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 50 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Dryad	Dryad	Database	None	Curated information Literature curation	All	None	Common Metadata Elements for Cataloging Biomedical Datasets Schema.org DOI	Elsevier's Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 29 more...	Data Citation Implementation BMJ - British Medical Journal
Electron Microscopy Data Bank	EMDB	Database	Biology Life Science	X-ray diffraction Electron density map Electron microscopy Microscopy Structure	All	CCD PDBe RCSB PDB EMPIAR	PDB PDBx/mmCIF	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Plus 32 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources
Environmental Data Initiative Data Repository	EDI	Database	Agriculture Atmospheric Science Biology Botany Earth Science Plus 6 more...	None	All	None	EML	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	None
Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources	EuPathDB	Database	Biomedical Science Life Science	Genome Orthologous Pathogen	Anncaliia Babesia Crithidia Cryptosporidium Edhazardia Plus 19 more...	FungiDB CryptoDB GiardiaDB MicrosporidiaDB PlasmoDB Plus 4 more...	OBI GFF3 FASTA	PLOS Recommended Repositories GGN SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR UK node resources Genetics & Genomics Next
European Nucleotide Archive	ENA	Database	Bioinformatics Data Management Functional Genomics Genomics Life Science Plus 2 more...	Annotation Amino acid sequence Deoxyribonucleic acid Histone Nucleotide Plus 2 more...	All	GenBank BioSD DDBJ Europe PMC EGA Plus 9 more...	SRA-XML NCBITAXON MIASPPE EMBL sequence format FASTA Plus 4 more...	MNI Open Research Elsevier's Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Plus 58 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources Genetics & Genomics Next
European Variation Archive	EVA	Database	Biomedical Science Genetics Genomics Life Science	DNA structural variation Genetic polymorphism Genotype Sequencing	All	ENA EGA dbSNP UniProtKB ClinVar Plus 3 more...	HUGO SO	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 26 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources
Experimental data repository for KInetic MOdels of biological SYStems	KiMoSys	Database	Life Science Metabolomics	Reaction data Enzyme Metabolite	All	None	SBML CellML	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist	Data Citation Implementation
FAIRsharing	FAIRsharing	Database	Agriculture Biomedical Science Earth Science Environmental Science Humanities Plus 2 more...	FAIR	All	None	Schema.org BioDBCore Bioschemas SRAO DRAO Plus 2 more...	MNI Open Research Elsevier's Data Policy HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 12 more...	ELIXIR Recommended Interoperability Resources ELIXIR UK node resources Genetics & Genomics Next
figshare	figshare	Database	Data Visualization	Image	All	OSF	Schema.org DOI	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 28 more...	Data Citation Implementation
FlowRepository	FlowRepository	Database	Biology Cell Biology Life Science	Cell Cellular assay Flow cytometry assay	All	None	Gating-ML FuGEFlow MIFlowCyt FCS	PLOS Recommended Repositories Cell Press - Cell Host & Microbe - Information for Authors Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors SciData Data Policy Plus 9 more...	Data Citation Implementation
FlyBase	FlyBase	Database	Anatomy Bioinformatics Comparative Genomics Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Functional Genomics Plus 5 more...	Bibliography Biocuration CRISPR Citation Clone library Plus 27 more...	Drosophila Drosophila ananassae Drosophila erecta Drosophila grimshawi Drosophila melanogaster Plus 8 more...	DRSC-FGR SGD WormBase GenomeRNAi BDGP Plus 14 more...	FBbi FB-DV SO ECO FBsp Plus 12 more...	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Rockefeller University Press - Journal Of Cell Biology - Data Deposition Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council GGN Plus 4 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Genetics & Genomics Next
GenBank	GenBank	Database	Life Science	DNA sequence data Nucleic acid sequence Disease Gene Genome	All	DDBJ GENI-ACT IRD ENA VirHostNet Plus 4 more...	SRA-XML NCBITAXON GenBank Sequence Format FASTA FASTQ Sequence and Sequence Quality Format Plus 4 more...	MNI Open Research Elsevier's Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Plus 62 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next
Gene Expression Omnibus	GEO	Database	Life Science	DNA microarray Gene expression data Genome	All	Nematode.net Bgee SMD ImmPort BioSample Plus 13 more...	MIAME/Env MIAME SOFT MINiML	MNI Open Research Elsevier's Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Plus 60 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation DNA Microarray Genetics & Genomics Next
GenomeRNAi	GenomeRNAi	Database	Life Science	RNA interference	Drosophila melanogaster Homo sapiens	FlyBase FlyMine	None	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 2 (for life sciences) Plus 5 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Giga Science Database	GigaDB	Database	Computational Biology Genetics Genomics Life Science Proteomics	Gene expression data Imaging Sequencing Software	All	None	ISA-Tab Bioschemas NCBITAXON	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist	Data Citation Implementation
Global Biodiversity Information Facility	GBIF	Database	Biodiversity Bioinformatics Life Science	Taxonomic classification	All	Scratchpads Brazilian Flora 2020 REFLORA ALA IPT - GBIF Australia Repository GBIF Spain IPT - GBIF Spain Repository Plus 28 more...	DwC TAPIR EML ABCD	PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 1 more...	Data Citation Implementation Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) international open data infrastructure
G-Node Data Infrastructure Services	GIN	Database	Neurophysiology Neuroscience	None	All	None	odML	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	None
Harvard Dataverse	Harvard Dataverse	Database	Data Management	Experiment metadata	All	Scholars Portal Dataverse TDR DataverseNL e-cienciaDatos UNC Dataverse	Schema.org DOI	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors Plus 11 more...	None
High Energy Physics Data Repository	HEPData	Database	Chemistry Natural Science Physics	None	Not applicable	None	Schema.org	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Chemistry
Influenza Research Database	IRD	Database	Biomedical Science Genomics Proteomics	Gene expression data Sequence feature Structure	Influenza virus	GenBank CSA RefSeq BEI RCSB PDB Plus 1 more...	OBI OGMS IDO IAO CLUSTAL-W Alignment Format Plus 5 more...	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation
IntAct molecular interaction database	IntAct	Database	Life Science Ontology and Terminology	Citation Experiment metadata Gene Ontology enrichment Gene name Protein domain Plus 5 more...	All	MINT Gene3D neXtProt APID Interactomes Reactome Plus 17 more...	CHEBI MIRO PSI-PAR XML MITAB GO Plus 5 more...	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Plus 12 more...	Data Citation Implementation International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx) ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS	Database	Life Science	Taxonomic classification	All	Ag Data Commons	NIFSTD	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation
International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative	INDI	Database	Biomedical Science Life Science	Diffusion tensor imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging Brain imaging Phenotype	Homo sapiens	NITRC ABIDE	MIfMRI	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies PLOS Recommended Repositories Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 2 (for life sciences) Plus 7 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research	ICPSR	Database	Anthropology Criminology Data Governance Data Management Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Plus 7 more...	Behavior Curated information	Homo sapiens	NACJD CivicLEADS	Schema.org DDI DCTERMS DOI	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors Cell Press - Molecular Cell - Information for Authors Plus 3 more...	None
MetaboLights	MTBLS	Database	Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Life Science Metabolomics	Biocuration Biological sample Chemical formula Chemical structure Mass spectrometry spectra Plus 9 more...	All	Rhea WikiPathways BRENDA OmicsDI DES-TOMATO	nmrCV CHEBI ISA-Tab PSI-MS CV BTO Plus 3 more...	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 18 more...	Metabolomics Standards and Databases Data Citation Implementation H2020 Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis (PhenoMenal) Project ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases EOSC-Life Resources Plus 1 more...
Metabolomics Workbench	MW	Database	Life Science Metabolomics	None	All	OmicsDI	OmicsDI XML format mwTab	PLOS Recommended Repositories	Metabolomics Standards and Databases Open Science Prize H2020 Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis (PhenoMenal) Project
MGI Mouse Gene Expression Database	GXD	Database	Life Science	Gene expression data Genome	Mus musculus	MGI MouseMine	MA EMAP ATOL	PLOS Recommended Repositories GGN eLife Data Policy	Genetics & Genomics Next
MGnify	MGnify	Database	Biodiversity Biomedical Science Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Environmental Science Life Science Plus 3 more...	Annotation DNA sequence data Gene prediction Metagenome Sequence annotation Plus 5 more...	All Anopheles gambiae Arabidopsis thaliana Bos indicus Bos taurus Plus 6 more...	ENA	MIxS - MIGS/MIMS FASTA FASTQ Sequence and Sequence Quality Format MIxS GO	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 14 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Non-CDR and Non-Deposition Database
miRBase Sequence Database	miRBase	Database	Life Science	Crowdsourcing RNA sequence Gene Micro RNA Ribonucleic acid	All	PolymiRTS miRNEST FlyMine GREENC MirGeneDB Plus 3 more...	EMBL sequence format FASTA	PLOS Recommended Repositories Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research eLife Data Policy BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 2 more...	Open Science Prize Data Citation Implementation
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP)	NAHDAP	Database	Biomedical Science	Addiction Disease Drug	Homo sapiens Human immunodeficiency virus	None	None	MNI Open Research HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research PLOS Recommended Repositories AAS Policy Plus 5 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation
National Database for Autism Research (NDAR)	NDAR	Database	Biomedical Science	Autistic disorder Behavior Disease	Homo sapiens	RDoCdb NDCT	NIFTI DICOM	PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Data Citation Implementation
NCBI Taxonomy	NCBITAXON	Standard	Life Science Ontology and Terminology Phylogenetics Taxonomy	Taxonomic classification	All	GenBank DDBJ ELM Pfam ProtoNet Plus 29 more...	ENVO Project Tycho Pre-compiled Data Format TAXRANK Micro B3 UP Taxonomy Plus 8 more...	Elsevier's Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy eLife Data Policy	Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation
NCBI Trace Archives	NCBI Trace Archives	Database	Life Science	Multiple sequence alignment Sequence	All	None	None	MNI Open Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 35 more...	Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next

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