Digital tools for researchers

Find and share data and code

Managing large sets of data and programming code is already unavoidable for most researchers. Tools have been developed to efficiently store and share data and code. These tools are become increasingly important as data and code sharing becomes the norm and a requirement of most funding agencies.

• BioLINCC – Clinical specimen database.
• ContentMine – Uses machines to liberate 100,000,000 facts from the scientific literature.
• DataBank – Analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.
• DataCite – Establish easier access to research data by providing persistent identifiers for data.
• DataHub – Publish or register datasets, create and manage groups and communities
• Dataverse Network – Harvard-based tool to share, cite, reuse and archive research data.
• Dryad- Data repository for any files associated with any published article in the sciences or medicine.
• Figshare – Manage your research in the cloud and control who you share it with or make it publicly available and citable
• GenBank – Gene sequence database provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
• GitHub – Online software project hosting using the Git revision control system.
• Nowomics – Follow genes, proteins and processes to keep up with the latest papers and data relevant to your research.
• Open Science Framework – Gathers a network of research documents, a version control system, and a collaboration software.
• Peer Evaluation – Open repository for data, papers, media coupled with an open review and discussion platform.
• Quip – Combines chat, documents, spreadsheets, checklist, and more to collaborate on any device.
• re3data – Global registry of research data repositories.
• Research Compendia – Tools for researchers to connect their data, code and computational methods to their published research
• SlideShare – Community for sharing presentations and other professional content
• Socialsci – Help researchers collect data for their surveys and experiments (blog post).
• Zenodo – A home for the long-tail of science, enabling researchers to share and preserve any research outputs.