PUBLISSO – Repository Finder
In the following table, we have compiled a list of repositories that enable open access publication of life science research data. A suitable pre-selection can be filtered using various criteria. To do so, use the arrow pointing downwards in the column headings.
This compilation is based on the Registry of Research Data Repositories - re3data.org. All repositories have been subjected to another quality check. Based on the most important criteria - life sciences and open access publication of research data - institutional and generic repositories were excluded, as were those with the requirement to issue a licence for use. Please note the respective subject-specific and organisational framework conditions of the operators.
Last updated: 17.11.2022
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| Name | Subject area focus in the life sciences | Further subject area | Regionally limited content | Operator’s location | Data publication only in connection with an article? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 Functional Connectomes Project | Neurosciences | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| AceView | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Addgene | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| AEKOS Data Portal (Australian Ecological and Knowledge Observation System Data Portal) | Environment | none | Australia | Australia | no |
| AFND (Allele Frequencies Net Database) | Medicine | Biology | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| ALEXA | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Canada | no |
| AlgeaBase | Biology | none | not limited | International | no |
| American Type Culture Collection | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Animal Genome Tracks on GBrowse | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Animal QTLdb (Animal Quantitative Trait Loci) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| AnimalGenome.ORG | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| The Antibody Registry | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| The Arabidopsis Information Resource | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| ArrayExpress | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Australian New Zeland Clinical Trials Registry | Medicine | none | not limited | Australia | no |
| Avian Knowledge Network | Biology | none | USA | USA | no |
| Bacterial Carbohydrate Structure DataBase | Biology | none | not limited | Russia | no |
| BACTIBASE | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Canada | no |
| Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project insitu | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| biodiversity.aq | Biology | Environment | Antarctis | Belgium | no |
| BioGRID (Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets) | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain, Canada | no |
| Biological Collection Access Service for Europe (BioCASE) | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| BioModels Database | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | yes |
| BRENDA – the comprehensive enzyme information system | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Germany | no |
| Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Canada | no |
| caNanoLab (cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory) | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| CancerData.org | Medicine | Biology | not limited | The Netherlands | no |
| The Cancer Imaging Archive | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Candida Genome Database | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Catalogue of Life | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| The Cell Image Library | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| China Forestry Scientific Data Center | Biology | none | China | China | no |
| ClinicalCodes | Medicine | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| ClinicalTrials.gov | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience | Neurosciences | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| ComBase | Nutrition | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| CorrDB (Animal Trait Correlation Database) | Nutrition | none | not limited | USA | no |
| CyberCell Database | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Canada | no |
| Data Sharing for Demographic Research | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Database of Genomic Variants Archive | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Database of Interacting Proteins | Biology | none | not limited | USA, Great Britain | no |
| DEPOD (DEPhOsphorylation Database) | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| Deutsches Register Klinischer Studien | Medicine | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| Digital Library for Earth System Education | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| DipnET (Diversity of the Indo-Pacific Network) | Biology | none | Indo-Pacific | USA | no |
| DNA Data Bank of Japan | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Japan | no |
| DOE Joint Genome Institute Genome Web Portal | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| DRYAD | Biology | Life Sciences overall | not limited | USA | yes |
| DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| EBI Metagenomics | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| EcoCyc Database | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| The Electron Microscopy Data Bank at PDBe | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Emage (e-Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression) | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| EMDataBank | Medicine | Biology | not limited | USA, Great Britain | no |
| Ensembl | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Environmental Information Data Centre | Environment | Biology | Great Britain | Great Britain | no |
| EuPathDB (Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources) | Biology | none | not limited | USA, Great Britain | no |
| EUROCAT (European Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies) | Medicine | none | Europe | Great Britain | no |
| The European Genome-phenome Archive | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| European Variation Archive | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Experimental Lakes Area | Biology | non | not limited | Canada | no |
| Expressed Sequence Tags database | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Expression Atlas | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Belgium | no |
| eyeMoviePedia (archived in PUBLISSO-Repository for Life Sciences) | Medicine | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| FAIRDOMHub | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Fishbase | Biology | Environment | not limited | International | no |
| The Fish Database of Taiwan | Biology | none | not limited | Taiwan | no |
| Flora von Bayern | Biology | Environment | Bavaria | Germany | no |
| Flora von Frankfurt am Main | Biology | Environment | Frankfurt on the Main | Germany | no |
| FlowRepository | Biology | none | not limited | Canada, USA | no |
| FlyBase (A Database of Drosophila Genes and Genomes) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Forest Service Research Data Archive | Agriculture | Biology | USA | USA | no |
| ForestPlots.net | Agriculture | Biology | South Amerika, Africa, Asia | Great Britain | no |
| Forestry Images | Agriculture | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Fungal Genetics Stock Center | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| GBOL (German Barcode Of Life) | Biology | none | Germany | Germany | no |
| GEISHA | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| GenBank | Biology | none | not limited | USA, Great Britain | no |
| Gene Expression Atlas | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain, Belgium | no |
| Gene Expression Omnibus | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| geneDB | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| GenomeRNAi | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| GeoPRISMS Data Portal | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| GeoReM | Environment | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| German Central Health Study Hub COVID-19 | Medicine | non | Germany | Germany | no |
| German Federation for Biological Data | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| GigaDB | Biology | none | not limited | China, Great Britain | yes |
| Global Catalogue of Microorganisms | Biology | none | not limited | Belgium, China | no |
| Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data | Medicine | none | not limited | USA, Germany | no |
| The Global Proteome Machine | Biology | none | not limited | Canada | no |
| GLOBE (Global Collaboration Engine) | Biology | Environment | not limited | USA | no |
| GnpIS (Genetic and Genomic Information System) | Biology | none | not limited | France | no |
| Golm Metabolome Database | Biology | none | not limited | Germany, Belgium | no |
| Gramene | Agriculture | none | not limited | USA, Great Britain | no |
| Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information and Data Cooperative | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| GWAS Central | Medicine | none | not limited | Great Britain, Belgium | no |
| Histome (The Histone Infobase) | Biology | none | not limited | India | no |
| HJ Andrews Experimental Forest | Environment | Biology | H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Oregon, USA) | USA | no |
| HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| The Human Protein Atlas | Biology | none | not limited | Sweden | no |
| Immuno Polymorphism Database | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| iNaturalist.org | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Influenza Research Database | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| InnateDB – A Knowlede Resource for Innate Immunity Interactions & Pathways | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Canada, Australia | yes |
| Insect Images | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| IntAct | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | yes |
| Integrated Relational Enzyme database | Biology | none | not limited | Switzerland, Great Britain | no |
| International Council for the Exploration of the Sea datasets | Environment | none | not limited | Denmark | no |
| International Long Term Ecological Research | Environment | none | not limited | Costa Rica | no |
| International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative | Neurosciences | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| International Plant Names Index (IPNI) | Biology | none | not limited | International | no |
| The International Research Institute for Climate and Society | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Interologous Interaction Database (I2D) | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain, Canada | yes |
| InterPro – protein sequence analysis & classification | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Invasive.org (Invasive and Exotic Species of North America) | Environment | none | North America | USA | no |
| IonomicHub | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| IPM Images | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System) | Biology | none | North America | Mexico, USA | no |
| JASPAR | Biology | none | not limited | Denmark | no |
| Journal of Cell Biology (JCB DataViewer) | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | yes |
| Kinetic models of biological systems | Biology | none | not limited | Portugal | no |
| KNB Data Repository | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| LIAS (A Global Information System for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes) | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | Germany | no |
| LOVD (Leiden Open Variation Database) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Netherlands | no |
| Macaulay Library | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| MaizeGDB | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| MAP (Malaria Atlas Project) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| MatrixDB | Biology | none | not limited | France | yes |
| MetaboLights | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| MetaCrop | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | Germany | no |
| MetaCyc | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| MG-RAST (Metagenomics analysis server) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| miRBase | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| ModelDB | Neurosciences | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Molecular INTeraction Database | Biology | none | not limited | Italia | no |
| Morphbank | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| MorphDBase | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| MorphoBank | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Mouse Genome Informatics | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Mouse Phenome Database | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Movebank Data Repository | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| MycoBank | Biology | none | not limited | The Netherlands | no |
| National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program | Medicine | none | USA | USA | no |
| National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging | Medicine | none | USA | USA | no |
| National Biodiversity Network Atlas | Biology | none | Great Britain | Great Britain | no |
| National Vegetation Survey Databank | Biology | Agriculture | New Zealand | New Zealand | no |
| NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI BioSystems | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI dbGaP (DataBase of Genotypes And Phenotypes) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI dbMHC (Major histocompatibility Complex database) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Gene | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Genome | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI GSS | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI HomoloGene | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Influenza Virus Resource | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Nucleotide | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI PopSet | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Probe | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Taxonomy | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Third Party Annotation | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NCBI Virus Variation | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NDAR (National Database for Autism Research) | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Neotoma DB (Neotoma Paleoecology Database) | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NeuroElectro | Neurosciences | none | not limited | USA, Canada | no |
| NeuroMorpho | Neurosciences | Biology | not limited | USA | no |
| Neuroscience Information Framework | Neurosciences | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Ningaloo Atlas | Biology | Environment | Region Ningaloo (Australia) | Australia | no |
| NITRC (Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse) | Neurosciences | none | not limited | USA | no |
| NORMAN MassBank | Biology | none | not limited | France | no |
| Ocean Biogeographic Information System | Environment | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals | Biology | none | not limited | Australia | no |
| Open fMRI | Neurosciences | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| Open Phacts | Medicine | none | not limited | Austria | no |
| OpenWorm | Biology | none | not limited | Worldwide | no |
| ORegAnno | Biology | none | not limited | Canada | no |
| PalDat (Palynological Database) | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | Austria | no |
| PATRIC (Pathosystems Resource Integration Center) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| PDBj (Protein Data Bank Japan) | Biology | none | not limited | Japan | no |
| PeptideAtlas | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| PhenoGen Informatics | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| PHI-base (Pathogen Host Interactions ) | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| PhysioBank | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| PhytoPath | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Phytozome | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | USA | no |
| plankton*net | Biology | Environment | not limited | Germany | no |
| Plant and Fungal Carbohydrate Structure Database | Biology | none | not limited | Russia | no |
| PlasmoDB | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| PLEXdb (Plant Expression Database) | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | USA | no |
| PMN (Plant Metabolic Network) | Biology | Agriculture | not limited | USA | no |
| Pombase | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Portal de datos de Biodiversidad | Biology | none | not limited | Argentina | no |
| PPBio Data Repository | Biology | Environment | not limited | Brazil | no |
| Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Protein Data Bank in Europe | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| PRoteomics IDEntifications Database | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| Pseudobase | Biology | none | not limited | The Netherlands | no |
| PubChem | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| PUBLISSO – Repository for Life Sciences | Life Sciences overall | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| QTL Archive | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Rhea | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| SABIO-RK (System for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways - Reaction Kinetics) | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| Saccharomyces Genome Database | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Sequence Read Archive | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| SoyBase | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Structural Biology Data Grid | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| studyforrest.oth | Neurosciences | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| SWISS-MODEL Repository | Biology | none | not limited | Switzerland | no |
| Synapse | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| Systematic Review Data Repository | Medicine | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Tree of Life Web Project | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| TreeBASE | Biology | none | not limited | USA | yes |
| TreeGenes | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| TriTrypDB | Biology | Environment | not limited | USA | no |
| TRY (Plant Trait Database) | Biology | none | not limited | Germany | no |
| UCSC Genome Bioinformatics | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center | Environment | none | Antarctica | USA | no |
| The USA National Phenology Network | Biology | none | USA | USA | no |
| UniParc | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| UniProt | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| UniRef (UniProt Reference Clusters) | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain | no |
| The Universal Protein Resource | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain, Switzerland | no |
| UsefulChem (archived in chemspider) | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| VegBank (The Vegetation Plot Archive Project) | Biology | Environment | USA | USA | no |
| VertNet | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| virus mentha | Biology | Medicine | not limited | Italia | no |
| Virus Pathogen Resource | Biology | Medicine | not limited | USA | no |
| Weed Images | Biology | Environment | not limited | USA | no |
| West African Plants – a Photo Guide | Biology | none | West Africa | Germany | no |
| West African Vegetation | Biology | Environment, Agriculture | West Africa | Germany | no |
| WestNile.ca.gov | Biology | Medicine | California | USA | no |
| World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF Dataverse | Agriculture | none | not limited | Kenya | no |
| World Data Center of Microoganisms | Biology | none | not limited | China | no |
| World Register of Marine Species | Biology | none | not limited | Belgium | no |
| Worldwide Protein Data Bank | Biology | none | not limited | Great Britain, USA, Japan | no |
| WormBase | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
| Xenbase | Biology | none | not limited | Canada | no |
| XNAT CENTRAL | Medicine | Neurosciences | not limited | USA | no |
| The Zebrafish Model Organism Database | Biology | none | not limited | USA | no |
