Table 3. List of tools for data annotation and met… Table 4. List of repositories, data centers and search tools for biological data
Please note that this list only shows a small selection of available resources.
German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data curation; free of charge cooperation of German and European archives, collections and repositories
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data curation; free of charge cooperation of German and European archives, collections and repositories
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data submission only through GBIF partner institutions; no curation for individual data sets; free of charge.
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data submission only through GBIF partner institutions; no curation for individual data sets; free of charge.
GBIF
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data submission only through GBIF partner institutions; no curation for individual data sets; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data; data submission only through GBIF partner institutions; no curation for individual data sets; free of charge
Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For marine biodiversity data; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For marine biodiversity data; free of charge
Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository (e!DAL-PGP)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For plant genomics & phenomics research data; data curation; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For plant genomics & phenomics research data; data curation; free of charge
Movebank
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, plattform
Description: For data sets and analysis workflows for animal movement data; data curation and review; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, plattform
Description: For data sets and analysis workflows for animal movement data; data curation and review; free of charge
Python Package Index (PyPI)
Type of data: software
Role: search & submit
Description: For Python code; free of charge
Type of data: software
Role: search & submit
Description: For Python code; free of charge
Zenodo
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For any type of data; no curation; free of charge
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For any type of data; no curation; free of charge
Dryad
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For any type of data; data curation; costs depending on status of home institution
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For any type of data; data curation; costs depending on status of home institution
RADAR
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For generic data; no curation; costs depending on home institution, services, space; DINI certificate
Type of data: generic
Role: search & submit
Description: For generic data; no curation; costs depending on home institution, services, space; DINI certificate
Amphibian Species of the World (ASW)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For amphibian taxonomic data; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For amphibian taxonomic data; free of charge
Avibase
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For bird data; database of taxonomic concepts rather than species, mapped and cross-referenced major taxonomies
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For bird data; database of taxonomic concepts rather than species, mapped and cross-referenced major taxonomies
BacDive - The Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase (by DSMZ)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For bacterial data; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For bacterial data; free of charge
Catalogue of Life (COL+)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For taxonomic data, all kingdoms; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
ITIS and Species 2000/Catalogue of Life (CoL) provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For taxonomic data, all kingdoms; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
ITIS and Species 2000/Catalogue of Life (CoL) provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
ChecklistBank (CLB)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For taxonomic data; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Maintained by Catalogue of Life (COL+) and GBIF
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit, aggregator
Description: For taxonomic data; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Maintained by Catalogue of Life (COL+) and GBIF
Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data, incl. traits and interactions; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For biodiversity data, incl. traits and interactions; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
FishBase
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For data on finfish, incl. traits, biology, distribution, etc.; free of charge
observations can be uploaded directly via FishWatcher
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search & submit
Description: For data on finfish, incl. traits, biology, distribution, etc.; free of charge
observations can be uploaded directly via FishWatcher
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For taxonomic data; free of charge ITIS and Species 2000/Catalogue of Life (CoL) provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For taxonomic data; free of charge ITIS and Species 2000/Catalogue of Life (CoL) provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) is a long-standing foundational initiative that operates between DDBJ, EMBL-EBI and NCBI.
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: The International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) is a long-standing foundational initiative that operates between DDBJ, EMBL-EBI and NCBI.
IUCN
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For risk assessments of species; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For risk assessments of species; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Map of Life (MOL)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For georeferenced biodiversity data; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search, aggregator
Description: For georeferenced biodiversity data; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For taxonomic data of marine species; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
official taxonomic reference list for OBIS
Type of data: subject-specific
Role: search
Description: For taxonomic data of marine species; registration necessary for some functions; free of charge
official taxonomic reference list for OBIS