Data Resources in the Health Sciences

UW Data Hosting and Storage Services

• ResearchWorks Archive (UW Libraries) -deposit datasets up to 10GB, contact them for larger datasets.
• UW IT Service Catalog - view a comprehensive list of self-sustaining services including data hosting and archiving.

NCBI provides several repository services for genomic and genetic data.

• Sequence Data
• Microarray Data
• Bioassay Data, Substance or Sequence-Based Reagents
• Human Clinical Data and Genetic Tests

NIH Data Sharing Repositories

• Table of NIH-supported data repositories that accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others).
• Includes instructions for submitting and accessing data.

Dryad - international, nonprofit organization that accepts data for storage and reuse. Free for UW researchers.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

UK Data Service- Acquires data from academic, public sector and commercial sources within the United Kingdom and abroad.

figshare - allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models.

Open Science Framework - open source scholarly commons for the entire research cycle including data deposit; from the Center for Open Science

Zenodo - CERN initiative; free deposit for the long tail of Science

File format to use depends on many aspects, including:

• the data itself
• how it was collected
• repository capabilities and preferences
• preservation considerations
• compatibility with re-use

File formats currently recommended by the UK Data Archive for long-term preservation of research data.  Other data centres or digital archives may recommend different formats.