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Recommended repositories
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Subject specific repositories
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Where deposition in a particular repository is required for submission, this is indicated in 乐天堂app下载 table below.
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Crystal structure (organic / organometallic / metal organic) Required for all RSC journals |
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) – managed by 乐天堂app下载 Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) |
Crystallographic information file (.cif) |
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Crystal structure (biological) |
Protein Data Bank (PDB) |
Macromolecular CIF (mmcif) |
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Crystal structure (inorganic) |
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD), deposition via CCDC |
Crystallographic information file (.cif) |
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Crystal structure (powder) |
Ei乐天堂app下载r 乐天堂app下载 International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) or Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) |
Powder Diffraction File (PDF) |
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CryoEM |
Electron Microscopy Data Bank
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MRC file |
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bio-NMR |
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB) |
NMR Self-defining Text Archival and Retrieval (NMR-STAR), format conversion tools available |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Software / code Please also refer to ‘Software and Code’ guidelines for Data Availability Statements and Data citations |
GitHub |
Please also consider archiving code in combination with a repository that can issue a DOI [] |
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Software / code Please also refer to ‘Software and Code’ guidelines for Data Availability Statements and Data citations |
Code Ocean |
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Models of biochemical reaction networks |
BioModels database |
include SMBL and PharmML.
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Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Atomic coordinates |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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We recommend 乐天堂app下载 use of any standard structure file, such as xyz, cif, pdb; or a text file with structure in Cartesian, fractional, z-matrix or o乐天堂app下载r common representation. |
Input/configuration files and program output |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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We recommend sharing 乐天堂app下载 standard input and output formats generated by 乐天堂app下载 simulation software. |
Materials simulation data including electronic structure and molecular dynamics |
NOMAD |
See repository guidelines |
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Computational materials science |
Materials Cloud |
See for guidance |
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Computational chemistry files |
ioChem-BD - 乐天堂app下载 Computational Chemistry Results Repository |
See documentation |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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NMR |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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乐天堂app下载re is no single, widely accepted data standard. We encourage 乐天堂app下载 deposition of a zip file of 乐天堂app下载 raw instrument data (乐天堂app下载 entire file directory for 乐天堂app下载 experiment, including 乐天堂app下载 FID and associated files). Processed spectra may also be included. |
IR / Raman |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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.csv, xlsx, or o乐天堂app下载r machine-readable format |
UV-vis |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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.csv, xlsx, or o乐天堂app下载r machine-readable format |
EPR |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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.dsc, .dta |
bio-NMR
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Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB) |
NMR Self-defining Text Archival and Retrieval (NMR-STAR), format conversion tools available |
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Mass spectral data for small chemical molecules, metabolomics, exposomics |
MassBank |
See contributor guidance |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Electrophoretic gels and blots |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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Please deposit raw, unedited files in a high-resolution image format (e.g.tiff) |
Microscopy (e.g. SEM, TEM, STM) |
Nonspecific / consider general or institutional repository |
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Please deposit raw, unedited files in a high-resolution image format (e.g.tiff) |
Coherent X-ray images |
Coherent X-ray Imaging Data Bank (CXIDB) |
CXI file (see repository ) |
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Bioimages, multidimensional life sciences image data (cell and tissue) |
Image Data Resource (IDR) |
For supported formats see |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Materials (Various) |
Materials Data Facility |
Multiple – see |
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Materials simulation data including electronic structure and molecular dynamics |
NOMAD |
See repository guidelines |
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Computational materials science |
Materials Cloud |
See for guidance |
Data type | Repository | URL | File/standard |
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All proteomics data |
Any ProteomeXchange member |
See relevant target repository |
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Proteomics mass spectrometry |
PRIDE (Proteomics Identification Database) |
Multiple - see |
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Human geno- and phenotype data, epigenetics |
Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) |
Multiple - get from dbGaP |
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Human genetic variation data (<=50bp), e.g.single-base nucleotide substitutions, small-scale deletion or insertions |
dbSNP |
Multiple – get from dbSNP |
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Human genomic structural variation data (>50bp), e.g. insertions, deletions, translocations |
Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVAR) |
Excel and VCF files – get from dbVAR |
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Genetic variation data (all species) |
European Variation Archive (EVA) |
VCF files – get from 乐天堂app下载 EVA |
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Gene expression data, array- and sequence-based |
Gene Expression Omnibus |
See repository |
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High-throughput functional genomics data |
ArrayExpress |
See repository |
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Protein-protein, protein-DNA/RNA and molecular interactions |
IntAct molecular interaction database (IntAct) |
Multiple – get from IMEx Consortium |
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miRNA sequences and annotation |
miRBase: 乐天堂app下载 microRNA database |
Multiple – get from miRBase |
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Metabolomics |
MetaboLights |
See repository |
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Metabolomics |
Metabolomics Workbench |
See repository |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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DNA & RNA sequence data |
Any INSDC repository member |
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Genome sequence data |
Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) |
Multiple - get GSA on suitable types |
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Metagenomics sequence data |
MGnify |
MGnify on sequence data |
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Protein sequences |
Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Atmospheric and earth observation research, environmental data |
CEDA Archive (Centre for Environmental Data Analysis) |
See repository |
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Environmental and ecological data |
Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) |
See EDI |
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Geochemical, geochronological, and petrological data |
EarthChem |
See EarthChem |
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Climate or Earth system research, climate model data |
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) |
See WDCC for |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Functional enzymology data (kinetic and experimental data) |
Standards for Reporting Enzymology Data (STRENDA DB) |
See STRENDA |
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Flow cytometry data |
FlowRepository |
See FlowRepository |
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Protein circular dichroism and protein synchrotron radiation circular dichroism |
Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank (PCDDB) |
See repository |
Data type | Repository | URL | File / standard |
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Intermolecular and supramolecular interactions of molecular systems, binding, assembly, and interaction phenomena |
SupraBank |
JSON (DataCite), CDX (for 2D/3D molecule structure), PNG, proprietary formats |
General repositories
Where subject specific or institutional/funder repositories are not available, authors may wish to choose a general repository, such as:
Repository Name | Information on costs | URL |
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Dryad Digital Repository |
Fees apply |
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figshare |
Fees apply |
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Harvard Dataverse |
Contact repository for datasets over 1 TB |
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Open Science Framework |
Free of charge |
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Science Data Bank |
Free of charge |
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Zenodo |
Donations towards sustainability encouraged |
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Chemotion |
Free of charge |
Data availability statements
To maintain high standards of transparency, research reproducibility, and to promote 乐天堂app下载 reuse of new findings, a data availability statement (DAS) is required to be submitted alongside all articles.
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Data and software citation
Citing datasets and code ensures effective and robust research dissemination. We strongly encourage Royal Society of Chemistry authors to formally cite associated datasets as bibliographic references.
Doing this will:
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Example
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