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Name	Abbreviation	Type	Domain	Taxonomy	Related Database	Related Standard	Related Policy	In Collection/Recommendation
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...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy Springer Nature - 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 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	SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
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 11 more...	MIRO MITAB PSI-MI XML	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy	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	AAAS Science Policy Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Springer Nature - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Plus 19 more...	Data Citation Implementation
BioStudies	BioStudies	Database	Biomedical Science Life Science	All	ENA	None	Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council PLOS Recommended Repositories	ELIXIR node contributed resources
caNanoLab	caNanoLab	Database	Bioactivity Biomedical Science Nanoparticle Nanotechnology Structure	Homo sapiens Mus musculus	None	NPO	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Elsevier - Lancet Infectious Diseases - Information for Authors Plus 9 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank	CXIDB	Database	Imaging Life Science Molecular structure X-ray diffraction	All	None	CXI	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Gates Open Research Data Guidelines BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist F1000Research Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 13 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database	CARD	Database	Amino acid sequence Antimicrobial DNA sequence data Life Science	Bacteria	None	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
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
CSIRO Data Access Portal	CSIRO DAP	Database	Astrophysics and Astronomy Biomedical Science Chemistry Humanities Life Science Plus 5 more...	All	None	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories	Chemistry
DANS-EASY Electronic Archiving System	EASY	Database	Classical Archeology Earth Science Economics Humanities Life Science Plus 2 more...	Not applicable	EDNA	None	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
Database of genomic structural VARiation	dbVar	Database	Biomedical Science Genetic polymorphism Genome Life Science	All	DGVA ClinVar DGV BovineMine	VarioML	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials 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	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research 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	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards IH Policy on sharing of model organisms for Biomedical Research Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission 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 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 Plus 1 more...	FASTA	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission Springer Nature - Nature Materials - 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...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission 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	JDAP Data Archiving Policy GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - The Lancet - Information for Authors Plus 27 more...	Data Citation Implementation BMJ - British Medical Journal
Electron Microscopy Data Bank	EMDB	Database	Electron density map Life Science Microscopy Structure X-ray diffraction	All	CCD PDBe RCSB PDB EMPIAR	PDB PDBx/mmCIF	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Materials - 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	SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
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	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy	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...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards 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	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Materials - 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 SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories	Data Citation Implementation
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 Recommended Databases and Data Standards GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist F1000Research Data Policy Gates Open Research Data Guidelines BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Plus 10 more...	None
figshare	figshare	Database	Data sharing Data visualization General purpose Image	All	OSF	Schema.org	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Springer Nature - Nature Materials - Availability of Data and materials 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 Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors Cell Press - Current Biology - Information for Authors Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - 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 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 Rockefeller University Press - Journal Of Cell Biology - Data Deposition Elsevier - Current Opinion in Cell Biology - Guide for Authors 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 ABCDDNA FASTA GenBank Sequence Format Plus 4 more...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards 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 5 more...	MIAME/Env SOFT MIAME MINiML	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist AAAS Science Policy Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards 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 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 (for life sciences) Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 4 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Giga Science Database	GigaDB	Database	Computational biology Gene expression data Genetics Genomics Imaging Plus 4 more...	All	None	ISA-Tab NCBITAXON Bioschemas	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist PLOS Recommended Repositories	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...	TAPIR ABCD EML DwC	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended 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	SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended 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 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 Data Policy Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories	Chemistry
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...	PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy	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 11 more...	CHEBI MIRO PSI-MI XML PSI-PAR XML GO Plus 5 more...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research 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	SciData Data Policy PLOS Recommended 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	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 3 (for life sciences) Plus 6 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research	ICPSR	Database	Behavior Curated information Data sharing Political Science Social Sciences	Homo sapiens	None	Schema.org DDI	Elsevier - Lancet Neurology - Information for Authors Elsevier Data Policy Cell Press - Developmental Cell - Information for Authors Cell Press - Neuron - Information for Authors Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors Plus 3 more...	None
MetaboLights	MTBLS	Database	Fluxomics Life Science Lipid Mass spectrometry spectra Metabolite Plus 3 more...	All	Rhea WikiPathways BRENDA OmicsDI	ISA-Tab CHEBI BTO PSI-MS CV nmrCV Plus 3 more...	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Gates Open Research Data Guidelines BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist F1000Research Data Policy Plus 16 more...	Metabolomics Standards and Databases Data Citation Implementation H2020 Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis (PhenoMenal) Project ELIXIR node contributed resources
Metabolomics Workbench	MW	Database	Data sharing Life Science Metabolomics	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	Gene expression data Genome Life Science	Mus musculus	MGI	ATOL	PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
MGnify	MGnify	Database	16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) Annotation Biomedical Science DNA sequence data Environmental Sciences Plus 8 more...	All Anopheles gambiae Arabidopsis thaliana Bos indicus Bos taurus Plus 6 more...	ENA	GO MIxS - MIGS/MIMS MIxS FASTQ Sequence and Sequence Quality Format FASTA	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Gates Open Research Data Guidelines BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist F1000Research Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 13 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR node contributed resources
miRBase Sequence Database	miRBase	Database	Crowdsourcing Gene Life Science Micro RNA (miRNA) RNA sequence Plus 1 more...	All	PolymiRTS miRNEST GREENC MirGeneDB CHOmine	EMBL sequence format FASTA	GigaScience - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press - Genes and Development - Instructions Regarding Data Submission BioMed Central - Minimum Standards of Reporting Checklist Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press - Genome Research The Plant Cell - Instructions for Authors Plus 1 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP)	NAHDAP	Database	Addiction Biomedical Science Disease Drug	Homo sapiens Human immunodeficiency virus	None	None	Gates Open Research Data Guidelines F1000Research Data Policy HRB Open Research Wellcome Open Research Data Guidelines UCL Child Open Health Research Plus 4 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
National Database for Autism Research (NDAR)	NDAR	Database	Autistic disorder Behavior Biomedical Science Disease	Homo sapiens	RDoCdb NDCT	NIFTI DICOM	Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
NCBI Taxonomy	NCBITAXON	Standard	Life Science Taxonomic classification	All	GenBank DDBJ ELM Pfam ProtoNet Plus 27 more...	ENVO Project Tycho Pre-compiled Data Format M2B3 UP Taxonomy FAANG metadata sample specification standard Plus 5 more...	Elsevier Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories SciData Data Policy	OBO Foundry Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation
NCBI Trace Archives	NCBI Trace Archives	Database	Life Science Multiple sequence alignment Sequence	All	None	None	Springer Nature - Nature Genetics - Availability of Data and materials Gates Open Research Data Guidelines Springer Nature - Nature Biotechnology - Availability of Data and materials Springer Nature - Nature Photonics - Availability of Data and materials F1000Research Data Policy Plus 33 more...	Data Citation Implementation

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