Awesome Research Software Registries
A list of research software registries (also known as catalog, index, warehouse,
repository, hub, platform, and other terms).
We define a registry as any publicly accessible website where research software
can be registered, and that employs Search Engine Optimization such as the
addition of metadata to help promote discovery of the research software that is
published on the registry. Websites do not necessarily have to retain their own
copies of the research software itself in order to be included in the list
below.
Contents
By country
- France - HAL is an open archive where
authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.
- Netherlands - NARCIS aims to record all scholarly
outputs (papers, data, as well as software) produced at Dutch institutions.
By organization
By programming language
By domain
- ascl.net - Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL).
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- egi.eu - Grid Computing middleware.
- Earth Sciences
- High energy physics https://hepforge.org/ - HEPForge is a development environment for high energy physics software projects.
- Humanities
- dighumlab.org - Software tools as used in
the humanities, such as speech analysis, tokenization, lemmatization, web
content scraping, and more.
- digitalmethods.net - Digital
methods for research into social and political issues based on New Media.
- tapor.ca - Text Analysis.
- nfdi4culture.de - The NFDI4Culture Registry collects metadata about existing research tools and data services, and provides a simple overview and detailed information about the resources.
- Life Sciences / Biology / Medical
- bio.tools - Essential scientific and technical
information about software tools, databases and services for bioinformatics
and the life sciences.
- Bioconductor
- biii.eu - Bioimaging.
- nitrc.org - NeuroImaging Tools & Resources Collaboratory.
- omics.ontosoft.org - Software related to
metabolomics, genomics and
other omics, annotated and searchable
using the OntoSoft vocabulary for
describing software.
- sbgrid.org - Structural biology softwares
and datasets. Members of SBGrid can benefit access to all of the deposited
softwares, e.g. PyMOL.
- scicrunch.org - A human
curated repository with unique persistent identifiers that are widely used in
the biomedical literature.
- yale.edu/modeldb - Computational
neuroscience models.
- bioconda - Conda channel dedicated to the life sciences.
- Mathematics
- gams.nist.gov - A
cross-index and virtual repository of mathematical and statistical software
components of use in computational science and engineering.
- netlib.org/JackDongarra - Software
for high-performance computers that's available in "open source" form on the
web for solving problems in numerical linear algebra, specifically dense,
sparse direct and iterative systems, and sparse iterative eigenvalue problems.
- swmath.org - Mathematics.
- mloss.org/software - Machine Learning.
- nanohub.org - Nano Technology.
- Social and Ecological Sciences
- comses.net - Library of Computational
models for the study of social and ecological systems.
- sosciso.de - Social Science Software (SoSciSo): Catalog of Software Tools for use in the Social Science Research Process.
Generic
- CodeOcean - Cloud-based computational environment to
preserve, publish, and execute research code.
- FigShare - Helps academic institutions store, share
and manage all of their research outputs, and issues persistent identifiers.
- Software Heritage Archive
- Zenodo - Online library where you can deposit almost
any kind of digital artefact and get a persistent identifier.
- Internet Archive - The Internet
Archive Software Collection is the largest vintage and historical software
library in the world.