Data Literacy, Datasets, Data Visualization, Data Management: Open Datasets

This research guide contains a selection of public databases curated by GitHub Inc.  To see the entire list of open datasets go visit GitHub Inc. List Public Data Sets 

• 1000 Genomes
• American Gut (Microbiome Project)
• Broad Bioimage Benchmark Collection (BBBC)
• Broad Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE)
• Cell Image Library
• Complete Genomics Public Data
• EBI ArrayExpress
• EBI Protein Data Bank in Europe
• Electron Microscopy Pilot Image Archive (EMPIAR)
• ENCODE project
• Ensembl Genomes
• Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
• Gene Ontology (GO)
• Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
• Harvard Medical School (HMS) LINCS Project
• Human Genome Diversity Project
• Human Microbiome Project (HMP)
• ICOS PSP Benchmark
• International HapMap Project
• Journal of Cell Biology DataViewer
• MIT Cancer Genomics Data
• NCBI Proteins
• NCBI Taxonomy
• NCI Genomic Data Commons
• NIH Microarray data or FTP (see FTP link on RAW)
• OpenSNP genotypes data
• Pathguid - Protein-Protein Interactions Catalog
• Protein Data Bank
• Psychiatric Genomics Consortium
• PubChem Project
• PubGene (now Coremine Medical)
• Sanger Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC)
• Sanger Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer Project (GDSC)
• Sequence Read Archive(SRA)
• Stanford Microarray Data
• Stowers Institute Original Data Repository
• Systems Science of Biological Dynamics (SSBD) Database
• The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), available via Broad GDAC
• The Catalogue of Life
• The Personal Genome Project or PGP
• UCSC Public Data
• UniGene
• Universal Protein Resource (UnitProt)

• Actuaries Climate Index
• Australian Weather
• Aviation Weather Center - Consistent, timely and accurate weather information for the world airspace system
• Brazilian Weather - Historical data (In Portuguese)
• Canadian Meteorological Centre
• Climate Data from UEA (updated monthly)
• European Climate Assessment & Dataset
• Global Climate Data Since 1929
• NASA Global Imagery Browse Services
• NOAA Bering Sea Climate
• NOAA Climate Datasets
• NOAA Realtime Weather Models
• NOAA SURFRAD Meteorology and Radiation Datasets
• The World Bank Open Data Resources for Climate Change
• UEA Climatic Research Unit
• WorldClim - Global Climate Data
• WU Historical Weather Worldwide

• American Economic Association (AEA)
• EconData from UMD
• Economic Freedom of the World Data
• Historical MacroEconomc Statistics
• International Economics Database and various data tools
• International Trade Statistics
• Internet Product Code Database
• Joint External Debt Data Hub
• Jon Haveman International Trade Data Links
• OpenCorporates Database of Companies in the World
• Our World in Data
• SciencesPo World Trade Gravity Datasets
• The Atlas of Economic Complexity
• The Center for International Data
• The Observatory of Economic Complexity
• UN Commodity Trade Statistics
• UN Human Development Reports

• College Scorecard Data
• Student Data from Free Code Camp

• CBOE Futures Exchange
• Google Finance
• Google Trends
• NASDAQ
• NYSE Market Data (see FTP link on RAW)
• OANDA
• OSU Financial data
• Quandl
• St Louis Federal
• Yahoo Finance

• EHDP Large Health Data Sets
• Gapminder World demographic databases
• Medicare Coverage Database (MCD), U.S.
• Medicare Data Engine of medicare.gov Data
• Medicare Data File
• MeSH, the vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed
• 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa/ www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/2014-2016-outbreak/index.html
• Open-ODS (structure of the UK NHS)
• OpenPaymentsData, Healthcare financial relationship data
• Genomic Data Commons Portal and BigQuery table
• World Health Organization Global Health Observatory