Tuesday 10 August 2021

Repositories for 3D image (and other) data

 

Registry of Research Data Repositories

http://re3data.org/

Listing of many repositories in all subject areas.

FAIRsharing

https://fairsharing.org/

"A curated, informative and educational resource on data and metadata standards, inter-related to databases and data policies." Lists lots of repositories, standards, and knowledgebases.

Zenodo

https://zenodo.org/

Hosted by CERN. "All fields of research. All types of research artifacts." Open data for open science. Up to 50GB per record, or by arrangement.

BioImage Archive

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-archive

A free, publicly available online resource for biological images that are either associated with a peer-reviewed publication, or of value beyond a single experiment.

Figshare     https://figshare.com/

Choice of CC license.

Giga Data Base (GigaDB)   http://gigadb.org/

Uses CC0 (public domain) licensing.

iDigBio

https://www.idigbio.org/

The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) funded by NSF. Data and images for millions of biological specimens.

MorphoSource

http://morphosource.org/

Duke Univ. Especially for museum specimens.

(Boyer et al 2017)

Brain Image Library  

https://www.brainimagelibrary.org/

"... national public resource enabling researchers to deposit, analyze, mine, share and interact with large brain image datasets."

Morph·D·Base   https://www.morphdbase.de/

Morphological Description Data Base. Not easy to access.

MorphoBank    http://www.morphobank.org/

"Homology of phenotypes & a database of peer-reviewed morphological matrices"

Digital Fish Library (DFL)

http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org/

Fish.

Digital Morphology (Digimorph)

http://digimorph.org/

Univ. Texas microCT library. Lots of fossils and other vertebrate samples, stacks, movies and more.

Dryad      http://datadryad.org/

Uses CC0 (public domain) licensing.

Phenome10k        http://phenome10k.org/

CT and surface scans of biological and palaeontological specimens (skulls).

Harvard Dataverse

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/

All kinds of data. Set up your own dataverse collection, up to 1TB. 

MorphoMuseuM (M3)

https://morphomuseum.com/

Mainly surface models. A peer reviewed, online journal that publishes 3D models of vertebrates, anatomy atlases, and 3D datasets. Also direct submission.

Aves 3D      http://aves3d.org/

Bird bones and skeletons

heidICON

https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/search

Image and multimedia database. Die Heidelberger Bilddatenbank, is the "Virtual Slide Collection" in progress of Heidelberg University.

Sammlungen Göttingen

https://sammlungen.uni-goettingen.de/  

Wissenschaftliche Sammlungen der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Image Data Resource (IDR)

https://idr.openmicroscopy.org/about/

A public repository of reference image datasets from published scientific studies. (Williams et al 2017)

Phaidra (UniVie)

https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/

Phaidra is the repository for the permanent secure storage of digital assets at the University of Vienna.

GitHub       https://github.com/

The place for open software

New Mexico Decedent Image Database (NMDID)
https://nmdid.unm.edu/welcome  

provides researchers with access to whole human body computed tomography (CT) scans and a rich body of associated metadata.

FaceBase
https://www.facebase.org/  

Comprehensive craniofacial data (including 3D imaging datasets) from model organisms (mouse and zebrafish) and humans.

MorphoBrowser
http://morphobrowser.biocenter.helsinki.fi/  

‘MorphoBrowser’ database and interface is a 3D visualisation and searching tool for mammalian teeth, accessible over the web.

Phenome10K
http://phenome10k.org/  

A free online repository for 3-D scans of biological and palaeontological specimens.

Genetics of craniofacial shape in Mus
https://osf.io/w4wvg/  

High-resolution 3D microCT head scans of a mouse panel between C57BL/6J and A/J mouse strains and associated genotype data. Contains mCT scans of ~500 mice heads and associated cranial landmarks.

Digital Morphology Museum of Kyoto University (KUPRI)
http://dmm4.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dmm/WebGallery/index.html  

DMM provides a large collection of CT and MRI tomography scans of various primates.

The Open Research Scan Archive
https://www.penn.museum/sites/orsa/Overview.html  

(formerly Penn Cranial CT Database) contains high resolution (sub-millimeter) scans of human and non-human crania from the Penn University Museum and other institutions.

GB3D
http://www.3d-fossils.ac.uk/search.cfm  

Fossils Online project, aims to develop a single database of the type specimens, held in British collections, of macrofossil species and subspecies found in the UK, including links to photographs and a selection of 3D digital models.

 

Other sources for 3D images:

The Visible Human Project

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html

Full-body images of a male and female adult

Thingiverse

https://www.thingiverse.com/

Loads of cool 3D models for 3D printing

Phaidra (UniVie)

https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/

Phaidra is the repository for the permanent secure storage of digital assets at the University of Vienna.

 

A lot of these repositories and many others for various kinds of data and documents are listed at PUBLISSO (itself a repository): 
https://www.publisso.de/en/research-data-management/publishing/publisso-repository-finder/

Also good to know is DataCitehttps://datacite.org/