Table 1 Information about selected major open data repositories

OSF

https://www.osf.io

All types

Individual files must be 5 GB or less

Zenodo

http://www.zenodo.org

All types

50 GB per dataset

Figshare

https://www.figshare.com

All types

File uploads of up to 5 TB in size

Dryad

https://www.datadryad.org

All types

A limit of 300 GB per data publication

NCBI GEO

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo

Array- and sequence-based data

It encourages to supply MIAME- and MINSEQE-compliant data

ArrayExpress

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress

Array- and sequence-based data

It encourages to supply MIAME- and MINSEQE-compliant data

Image Data Resource

https://www.idr.openmicroscopy.org

Life sciences image data

For file sizes larger than 1000 GB special planning is needed

Protein Data Bank

https://www.rcsb.org

Atomic-level, 3D structure data

It uses the PDBx/mmCIF file format