TABLE 2.

Public repositories for transcriptomic data in health sciences.

Repository	Host institution	File storage	Data type
Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)	National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)	NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA)	Functional genomics data generated from microarray or NGS platforms
BioStudies (former ArrayExpress)	European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)	European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)	Functional genomics data generated from microarray or NGS platforms
DDBJ Sequence Read Archive (DRA)	DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)	DDBJ Sequence Read Archive (DRA)	Functional genomics data generated from NGS platforms.
Genomic Data Commons (GDC)	National Cancer Institute (NCI)	Genomic Data Commons (GDC)	Functional genomics data generated from NGS platforms in cancer.
Genome Sequence Archive (GSA)	National Genomics Data Center (NGDC), China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB)	Genome Sequence Archive (GSA)	Raw sequence reads from diverse sequencing platforms

NGS, Next-Generation Sequencing.