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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 entail seven Data Centers located at natural history collections located throughout Germany. 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. Data are available via various facets of the GFBio search portal.

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.

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Data Centers

Data Centers specialized on Plant, Nucleotide and Environmental Data

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

ENA – European Nucleotide Archive

e!DAL-PGP archives, curates and publishes cross-domain, plant-related research data that exceeds existing repositories due to their size or scope. This includes for example:

image collections from plant phenotyping and microscopy
unfinished genomes
genotyping data
visualizations of morphological plant models
data from mass spectrometry
software & documents

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Learn more about the data center ENA

PANGAEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

PANGAEA archives, curates and publishes multidisciplinary (e.g. geochemical, biological observational and occurrence) data from marine and terrestrial environments. Curation includes user support, definition of data set granularity, quality control, archival format transformation, metadata description and control. Supported data types are tabular data but also binary data, e.g multimedia.

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Data Centers at Natural Science Collections

BGBM – Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin

DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms

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LIB – Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

MfN – Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin

The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change is a foundation under public law. The Biodiversity Data Center as part of the LIB is aimed at hosting, archiving, publishing and distributing data from biodiversity research and zoological collections.

The Biodiversity Data Center handles and curates data on:

The specimens of the institutes collection, including provenance, distribution, habitat, and taxonomic data.
Observations, recordings and measurements from field research, monitoring and ecological inventories.
Morphological measurements, descriptions on specimens, as well as
Genetic barcode libraries, and
Genetic and molecular research data associated with specimens or environmental samples.

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SGN – Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung