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Name	Abbreviation	Type	Subject	Domain	Taxonomy	Related Database	Related Standard	Related Policy	In Collection/Recommendation
ArrayExpress	ArrayExpress	Database	Life Sciences	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 7 more...	MAGE-TAB EFO MIAME/Env MINSEQE MIAME Plus 2 more...	Elsevier Data Policy HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards MNI Open Research Plus 49 more...	Data Citation Implementation DNA Microarray ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases Genetics & Genomics Next
Australian Antarctic Data Centre	AADC	Database	Atmospheric Science Biology Earth Sciences Environmental Sciences Geology Plus 4 more...	None	All	GBIF	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	None
Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets	BioGRID	Database	Biochemistry Bioinformatics Chemical Biology Cheminformatics Life Sciences Plus 2 more...	Biocuration Protein interaction Protein-protein interaction 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 eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Biological Magnetic Resonance Databank	BMRB	Database	Life Sciences	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 Sciences	Experiment metadata	All	ENA	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council	ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases
caNanoLab	caNanoLab	Database	Biomedical Science	Nanotechnology Bioactivity Nanoparticle Structure	Homo sapiens Mus musculus	None	NPO	Elsevier 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 Sciences	Molecular structure X-ray diffraction Imaging	All	None	CXI EDMI-Functional	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 14 more...	Data Citation Implementation
Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database	CARD	Database	Life Sciences	DNA sequence data Amino acid sequence Antimicrobial	Bacteria	None	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories	None
Crystallography Open Database	COD	Database	Chemistry	Molecular structure X-ray crystallography assay X-ray diffraction	All	None	SMILES	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 13 more...	Data Citation Implementation Chemistry
CSIRO Data Access Portal	CSIRO DAP	Database	Astrophysics and Astronomy Biomedical Science Chemistry Humanities Life Sciences Plus 5 more...	None	All	None	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories	Chemistry
DANS-EASY Electronic Archiving System	EASY	Database	Classical Archaeology Earth Sciences Economics Humanities Life Sciences 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 Sciences	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 36 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Genomic Variants Archive	DGVA	Database	Genomics Life Sciences	Genetic polymorphism Curated information Structure Sequence variant	All	ArrayExpress ENA EGA Ensembl dbVar Plus 1 more...	None	HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature - Research Data Policies MNI Open Research PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 25 more...	Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes	dbGaP	Database	Biomedical Science Epigenetics Life Sciences	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...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Genetics & Genomics Next
Database of Interacting Proteins	DIP	Database	Biology Life Sciences	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 EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 9 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx)
Database of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism	dbSNP	Database	Life Sciences	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 3 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 EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards Plus 37 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories National Child Development Study (UK) Genetics & Genomics Next
DNA Data Bank of Japan	DDBJ	Database	Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Life Sciences	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...	American Society for Clinical Investigation - Journal of Clinical Investigation - Information for Authors Elsevier Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 49 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 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 28 more...	Data Citation Implementation BMJ - British Medical Journal
Electron Microscopy Data Bank	EMDB	Database	Biology Life Sciences	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 EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 31 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases
Environmental Data Initiative Data Repository	EDI	Database	Agriculture Atmospheric Science Biology Botany Earth Sciences Plus 6 more...	None	All	None	EML	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	None
Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources	EuPathDB	Database	Biomedical Science Life Sciences	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 eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories ELIXIR UK node resources Genetics & Genomics Next
European Nucleotide Archive	ENA	Database	Bioinformatics Data Management Functional Genomics Genomics Life Sciences Plus 2 more...	Annotation Amino acid sequence Deoxyribonucleic acid Histone Nucleotide Plus 2 more...	All	GenBank BioSD DDBJ Europe PMC EGA Plus 5 more...	SRA-XML NCBITAXON MIASPPE EMBL sequence format FASTA Plus 4 more...	Elsevier Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 55 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases Genetics & Genomics Next
European Variation Archive	EVA	Database	Biomedical Science Genetics Genomics Life Sciences	DNA structural variation Genetic polymorphism Genotype Sequencing	All	ENA EGA dbSNP UniProtKB ClinVar Plus 2 more...	HUGO SO	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 26 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases
Experimental data repository for KInetic MOdels of biological SYStems	KiMoSys	Database	Life Sciences Metabolomics	Enzyme Reaction data Metabolite	All	None	SBML CellML	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData 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 Sciences Environmental Sciences Humanities Plus 2 more...	None	All	None	Schema.org BioDBCore Bioschemas SRAO DRAO Plus 2 more...	Elsevier Data Policy HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards MNI Open Research Plus 12 more...	ELIXIR UK node resources Genetics & Genomics Next
figshare	figshare	Database	Data visualization	Image	All	OSF	Schema.org DOI	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 27 more...	Data Citation Implementation
FlowRepository	FlowRepository	Database	Biology Cell Biology Life Sciences	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 eLife 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 13 more...	FBbi FB-DV SO ECO GO Plus 12 more...	Elsevier Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Rockefeller University Press - Journal Of Cell Biology - Data Deposition GGN Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Plus 4 more...	Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Genetics & Genomics Next
GenBank	GenBank	Database	Life Sciences	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...	American Society for Clinical Investigation - Journal of Clinical Investigation - Information for Authors Elsevier Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Plus 60 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories Genetics & Genomics Next
Gene Expression Omnibus	GEO	Database	Life Sciences	DNA microarray Gene expression data Genome	All	Nematode.net Bgee SMD ImmPort BioSample Plus 11 more...	MIAME/Env SOFT MIAME MINiML	Elsevier Data Policy Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Plus 58 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories DNA Microarray Genetics & Genomics Next
GenomeRNAi	GenomeRNAi	Database	Life Sciences	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 Sciences Proteomics	Gene expression data Imaging Sequencing Software	All	None	ISA-Tab Bioschemas NCBITAXON	PLOS Recommended Repositories 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 Sciences	Taxonomic classification	All	Scratchpads Brazilian Flora 2020 REFLORA ALA IPT - GBIF Australia Repository GBIF Spain IPT - GBIF Spain Repository Plus 26 more...	DwC TAPIR ABCD EML	PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council eLife Data Policy SciData 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	Neuroscience OMIT	None	All	None	odML	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	None
Harvard Dataverse	Harvard Dataverse	Database	Data Management	Experiment metadata	All	Scholars Portal Dataverse TDR DataverseNL e-cienciaDatos	Schema.org DOI	Elsevier Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Cell Press - Cell Metabolism - Information for Authors Taylor and Francis Data Policy Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council Plus 11 more...	None
High Energy Physics Data Repository	HEPData	Database	Chemistry Natural Sciences Physics	None	Not applicable	None	Schema.org	Elsevier Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories Open Research Data and Data Management Plans - Information for ERC grantees by the ERC Scientific Council eLife Data Policy SciData 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 6 more...	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
IntAct molecular interaction database	IntAct	Database	Life Sciences 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 GO PSI-PAR XML MITAB Plus 5 more...	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies EMBO Recommended Databases and Data Standards PLOS Recommended Repositories Plus 11 more...	Data Citation Implementation International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx) ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases
Integrated Taxonomic Information System	ITIS	Database	Life Sciences	Taxonomic classification	All	Ag Data Commons	None	PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation
International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative	INDI	Database	Biomedical Science Life Sciences	Diffusion tensor imaging Functional magnetic resonance imaging Neuroimaging 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...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research	ICPSR	Database	Political Science Social Sciences	Behavior Curated information	Homo sapiens	None	Schema.org DDI	Elsevier 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 Sciences 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...	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 18 more...	Metabolomics Standards and Databases Data Citation Implementation H2020 Phenome and Metabolome aNalysis (PhenoMenal) Project ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases Genetics & Genomics Next
Metabolomics Workbench	MW	Database	Life Sciences 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 Sciences	Gene expression data Genome	Mus musculus	MGI MouseMine	MA ATOL	PLOS Recommended Repositories GGN eLife Data Policy	Genetics & Genomics Next
MGnify	MGnify	Database	Biodiversity Biomedical Science Data Submission, Annotation and Curation Environmental Sciences Life Sciences 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	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 14 more...	Data Citation Implementation ELIXIR Non-CDR and Non-Deposition Database
miRBase Sequence Database	miRBase	Database	Life Sciences	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...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP)	NAHDAP	Database	Biomedical Science	addiction Disease Drug	Homo sapiens Human immunodeficiency virus	None	None	HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research MNI Open Research PLOS Recommended Repositories AAS Policy Plus 5 more...	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
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 eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Data Citation Implementation Open Science Prize NIH-supported data repositories
NCBI Taxonomy	NCBITAXON	Standard	Life Sciences Ontology and Terminology Phylogenetics Taxonomy	Taxonomic classification	All	GenBank DDBJ ELM Pfam ProtoNet Plus 29 more...	ENVO Project Tycho Pre-compiled Data Format Micro B3 UP Taxonomy FAANG metadata sample specification standard Plus 7 more...	Elsevier Data Policy PLOS Recommended Repositories eLife Data Policy SciData Data Policy	Cell Migration Standardisation Organisation OBO Foundry
NCBI Trace Archives	NCBI Trace Archives	Database	Life Sciences	Multiple sequence alignment Sequence	All	None	None	Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 1 HRB Open Research UCL Child Open Health Research Springer Nature Research Data Policy Type 4 Springer Nature - Research Data Policies Plus 35 more...	Data Citation Implementation Genetics & Genomics Next

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