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Data Repositories

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NIH-Supported Data Sharing Resources To help researchers locate an appropriate repository for sharing or accessing data, BMIC maintains lists of data sharing repositories. 

NCBI Databases such as GenBank (for DNA sequence deposition) and GEO (for RNA-seq data) and PubChem (for screen data), that are among the most common places to submit data.

The National Institute of Mental Health Data Archive (NDA) makes available human subjects data collected from hundreds of research projects across many scientific domains.

NNLM Data Repository Finder this tool is meant to help locate NIH-supported repositories for sharing research data. Answer the questions on the left-hand side to narrow the number of repositories to compare. I

NSF Public Access Repository the NSF Public Access Repository (PAR) is the designated repository where NSF-funded investigators deposit peer-reviewed, published journal articles and juried conference papers. a PDF guide

USDA Find a Data Repository Researchers should ideally determine if an appropriate domain repository exists for their data, and tools such as FAIRsharing.org and re3data.org can help with this determination. Researchers need to consider the requirements of their community, funder, institution, publisher, and possibly other factors to select an appropriate repository.

USDA Forest Service Research Data Archive - submission

USGS Repositories provide best practices and examples.

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