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About the Data Center Network

The ten Data Centers listed below are are infrastructure partners in the GFBio broker network. They are are departments of science informatics and data infrastructures at recognized science institutions devoted to manage, store, archive and publish various types of bio- and geodiversity data. Data submitted through GFBio are transmitted to and curated by data curators at a matching GFBio Data Center, based on the profiles below.

The core group of ten GFBio data centers has agreed on a number of consensus documents, tools, data pipelines and standards and technical formats for interoperability as published in the GFBio Wiki. Each of the data centers has its own profile (see below) and provides a portfolio of services which is in accordance with the core tasks of the respective organisation. Data are available via various facets of the GFBio search portal and as far as appropriate visualisable via the VAT tool/ GeoEngine.


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Wondering if your data is suitable for archival & publication in one of the data centers?

Get to know the data centers Data Centers below!







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Data Curation and Shared archival

Data curation

Submitted data will be checked for quality and scope. If suitable for one of the data centers, the curators are starting to harmonise the data set. This entails checking for mandatory fields, converting values in standardised formats  (such as date, time or coordinates) and using standardised vocabulary (metadata standards) to describe the data. The curation process takes effort and the curator relies on the continuous communication with the data submitter. After the data undergo curation, the data Findability and Reusability are greatly enhanced and the data are ready to be archived and subsequently published. Data can be placed under moratorium to be published at a later date, however, the extension of the moratorium period is limited and varies according to the data centers policy.

Shared archival

Biodiversity is influenced by many factors. Therefore, data generated to answer questions about biodiversity are often heterogeneous and looking at different aspects of biodiversity, such as the occurrence of species in a certain environment. To be able to archive the data in the most suitable repository, the heterogenous data sets are divided, archived in the respective data centers and interlinked via their persistent identifiers.


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Data Centers specialized on Plant, Nucleotide and Environmental Data


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e!DAL-PGP Plant Genomics and Phenomics Research Data Repository

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ENA European Nucleotide Archive

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PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

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Data Centers at Natural Science Collections

BGBM  Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin

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DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms

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LIB– Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

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MfN Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin

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SGN Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

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SNSB – Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns

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The Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns (SNSB) is a natural history collection facility in Bavaria. TheSNSB IT Centeras part of the SNSB is its institutional repository primarily for scientific bio- and geodiversity data of the natural history collections belonging to the SNSB.

The mission comprizes research activities in the field of biodiversity informatics and data science. Software is mainly designed and set up following the concepts of the Diversity Workbench (DWB). DWB software tools are registered in bio.tools, a service of ELIXIR Europe.

The SNSB IT Center as GFBio Data Center supports scientists and institutions by offering DWB support and workshops. Additional services are provided on a case-by-case basis. They might include the sustainable DWB management of data from its generation up to persistent storage, archiving and publication of approved, quality-controlled, standardized and well-structured, i.e. FAIR

  • occurrence and provenance data (from specimens, biological samples and observations)
  • taxonomic and checklist data
  • trait data (e.g., morphological, anatomical, chemical and molecular descriptions)


Learn more about the data center SNSB



SMNSState Museum of Natural History Stuttgart 

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