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How Do I Manage Research Data at Penn State College of Medicine?

Repositories

Repositories for Data Management

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 REDCap (PSU)

Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) is a secure, web-based application designed exclusively to support data capture for research studies; CTSI sponsored

User support and training of REDCap

HIPAA compliant

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 Scholarsphere (PSU)

A Penn State University Libraries product available to faculty, staff, and students (PSU Access ID required to use).

General information on Scholarsphere

User   Support - FAQs, support videos, technical difficulties, consultation requests

Not designed for patient or identified data

  Data Commons (PSU)  A resource for data sharing, discovery, and archiving of Penn State research

 

Administrative Information Services (PSU)

 

 

Various digital tools available to the PSU community

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 PubChem 

Biological activity of small molecules; includes PubChem Substance, PubChem Compound, and PubChem BioAssay

Allows uploading of small molecule data including biological activity data and siRNA data

 

 GenBank ®  

NIH genetic sequence database; for submissions 

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 RCSB Protein Data Bank

3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complexes

Deposit structural data in PDB

 

 NIH Sharing Repositories

NIH-supported data repositories that accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others)

 

 Dryad

Basic and applied sciences data

 

 Data Repositories from Open Access Directory

Repositories for open data

 

 re3data.org

 Databib

 (these organizations merged)

Global registry of research data repositories; identify and locate online repositories of research data in various disciplines 

 

figshare

Zenodo

General repository services
 

GitHub

Computer software-specific repository