- Table of Contents:
- These categories are very non-exclusive, as many resources could fit multiple categories.
- Feel free to add to this; pull Requests are VERY welcome!
- Connected Researchers - Digital tools for researchers
- NCBI databases - National Center for Biotechnology Information database list, VERY comprehensive!
- NIF - Neuroscience Infomation Framework - Search for EVERY kind of neuroscience data, atlas, software, everything!
- re3data - Registry of Research Data Repositories
- SciCrunch - Science resource sharing and searching
- SciCrunch Resource Identification Portal - Searches and indexes Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) in literature
- For more information: https://www.force11.org/group/resource-identification-initiative
- Europe PMC - Similar to PubMed Central below
- Google Scholar
- PubMed - NIH NCBI hosted index of biomedical literature
- PubMed Central (PMC) - The collection of free full-text publications on PubMed
- Sci-Hub
- ScienceOpen
- F1000Research
- arXiv - Famous preprint server for physics, computer science, etc.
- biorXiv - Preprint server for biology
- gitXiv - Preprint server for computer science
- Creative Commons - Choose a License
- "Why the CC-BY License?" - Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
- Bioconductor - R software suite for analyzing high-throughput genomic data
- GitHub for Science
- rOpenSci - Infrastructure for R software tools for scientific data analysis
- SciUnit - Formally validating scientific models against data
- ELIXIR Core Data Resources
- ExPASy - Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Resource Portal
- GitHub public datasets (not comprehensive)
- Google spreadsheet
- INDI - International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative
- NCBI databases - National Center for Biotechnology Information database list, VERY comprehensive!
- NCIP - National Cancer Informatics Program data repository
- NDA - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Data Archive
- NDCT - National Database for Clinical Trials Related to Mental Illness (by the NIMH)
- NIDA Data Share - National Institute on Drug Abuse data repository
- NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) Central Repository
- NIF - Neuroscience Information Framework, massive search engine for neuroscience data, tools, etc.
- NIH RePORT - Research Portfolio Open Reporting Tools, repository of grants, data, etc.
- NITRC - NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory
- OBO Foundry - Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology database
- Open Data Inception - List of open data portals
- Pathway Commons - Database of public pathway and interaction databases
- PhysioNet - Database of physiological signal datasets (PhysioBank) and related tools (PhysioToolkit)
- UniProt - Repository of protein sequence and functional information databases
- Dataverse - Open source research data repository software
- Datazar - Cloud-based data collaboration platform
- Dryad Digital Repository
- Figshare - Online repository for sharing figures, data, and more
- OSF - Open Science Framework
- re3data - Registry of Research Data Repositories
- Zenodo - Research data repository
- 3D Brain Atlas Reconstructor
- ABIDE - Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange
- Allen Brain Atlas Data Portal
- BEI Resource Repository - Catalog of pathogens, disease agents, etc.
- BGAgenomicsDB - Genomics database for cyanobacterial genomes
- BioLINCC - Biologic Specimen and Data Repository Information Coordinating Center
- BioGRID - Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets
- BrainSlices - Repository of brain tissue images
- C-BIG - Biological Imaging and Genetic repositiry
- CCF - Connectome Coordination Facility, includes Human Connectome Projects
- CEBS - Chemical Effects in Biological Systems
- Channelpedia - Wiki of neuron ion channels, hosted by the Blue Brain Project
- ClinicalTrials.gov - Probably the premier database of clinical studies
- CRCNS - Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience
- CVRG - CardioVascular Research Grid
- DIP - Database of Interacting Proteins
- EMERGE - Electronic medical records and genomics network of tools and databases
- ENSANUT - (in Spanish) Health and Nutrition National Survey of Mexico
- EuPathDB - Eukaryotic Pathogen Database Resources
- EumicrobeDB - Microbe and transcriptomics database
- FaceBase - Craniofacial data resource
- FITBIR - Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research Informatics System
- FlyBase - A Drosophila Genomic and Genetic Database
- G2Aging - Gateway to Global Aging Data
- GDC - National Cancer Institute (NCI) Genomic Data Commons (formerly Cancer Genome Atlas)
- GEO - Gene Ontology Consortium
- GeneNetwork (formerly WebQTL)
- Gramene - Ata resource for comparative functional genomics in crops and model plant species
- H-CUP - Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
- Healthdata.gov - US federal government health database
- IDA LONI - Image and Data Archive for neuroscience by Laboratory of Neuro Imaging
- ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- iDASH - Integrating Data for Analysis, Anonymization, and Sharing
- iEEG.org - National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) EEG data repository for epilepsy research
- IHEC - International Human Epigenome Consortium Data Portal
- ImmPort - Immunology Database and Analysis Portal
- InterLex - Lexicon of biomedical terms (formerly NeuroLex)
- Intermine - Open-source collection of life science data repositories, and software for hosting your own
- IRD - Influenza Research Database
- ITN TrialShare - Immune Tolerance Network clinical trials research portal
- KEGG - Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
- KLoSA - (in Korean) Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- LINCS - Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures
- Metabolomics Workbench - NIH metabolomics database and toolset
- MHAS - Mexican Health and Aging Study
- miRBase - microRNA database and registry
- ModelDB - Repository of computational neuroscience models for simulation, built by Senselab
- MPD - Mouse Phenome Database
- MIMIC-II - Multiparameter Intelligent Monitoring in Intensive Care II, a critical care database
- Nanomaterial Registry
- NAHDAP - National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program
- NACDA - National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging
- National Sleep Research Resource
- NCBO BioPortal - National Center for Biomedical Ontology repository
- NeuroElectro - Repository of data-mined and human-curated neuron celltype electrophysiological data
- NeuroMorpho - Curated repository of digitally reconstructed neuron geometries
- NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) Genetics Repository
- NIH (National Institutes of Health) Human Microbiome Project
- NURSA - Nuclear Receptor Signaling Atlas
- NWB - Neurodata Without Borders - Database of electrophysiological neuroscience data
- OpenfMRI data repository
- OpenWorm - Popular platform for simulation and analysis of nematode neuroscience models!
- OSB - Open Source Brain
- Panther Classification System - for gene ontologies
- PDBP DMR - Parkinson's Disease Biomarkers Program Data Management Resource
- PPMI - Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative
- PeptideAtlas - Compendium of peptides from proteomics
- PhenoExplorer - Search engine for phenotype identification in dbGaP database
- PsychFileDrawer - Repository of psychology replication reports
- PubChem chemical database
- RCSB PDB - Research Collaboration for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank
- RGD - Rat Genome Database
- Reactome - Pathway, protein, and reaction database
- RxNorm - Database of normalized drug names
- Senselab hosts several other databases, but ModelDB is the most popular:
- CellPropDB - "Cellular Properties Database provides a simple repository for data regarding membrane channels, receptor and neurotransmitters that are expressed in specific types of cells."
- NeuronDB - "Provides a dynamically searchable database of three types of neuronal properties: voltage gated conductances, neurotransmitter receptors, and neurotransmitter substances."
- MicrocircuitDB - "Provides an accessible location for storing and efficiently retrieving realistic computational models of brain microcircuits and networks."
- 3DModelDB - "A collection of 3D printable versions of published neuron morphologies, both traced and artificial."
- ORModelDB - "A resource that is a repository of the results of the efforts of the community is computationally elucidating the structure of the olfactory receptor with a view to establishing a mechanistic basis for OR-odorant binding."
- OdorMapDB - Olfactory Bulb Odor Map DataBase
- OdorDB - Odor Molecules DataBase
- ORDB - Olfactory Receptor DataBase
- SNPedia - Single Nucleotide Polymorphism wiki
- TCIA - The Cancer Imaging Archive
- TCDB - Transporter Classification Database
- UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz) Genome Browser
- VectorBase - Bioinformatics resource for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens
- WikiPathways - Database of biological pathways
- Whole Brain Catalog - Virtual catalog of a mouse brain
- WormBase - Database of nematode information
- Xenbase - Database of xenopus (frog) information
- ZFIN - Zebrafish Model Organism Database
- Autopatcher - DIY hardware for builting a cell autopatching system for electrophysiology
- Open Ephys - Open-source electrophysiology
- Open Hardware Repository - run by CERN
- Biostars - Bioinformatics Q & A
- BSSW - Better Scientific SoftWare project
- COS - Center for Open Science
- F1000Research
- FORCE11 - Scientific community dedicated to improving knowledge sharing capabilities in scholarly communication
- IODC - International Open Data Conference
- LinkedScience.org
- Mozilla Science Lab - Very exciting work focused on open science coding and communication
- Neurostars - Neuroscience Q and A
- OpenCon conference
- Software Carpentry - Teaching basic lab skills for research computing
- SPARC - Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- SSI - Software Sustainability Institute, focused on enhancing scientific coding
- TailorDev - "Best practices and software for an Open Science"
- OSF - Open Science Framework built by Center for Open Science
- Synapse built by Sage Bionetworks
- Liquid