Buyers of scientific data

Licensing research data to AI: who takes it, and how

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The organisations that talk about scientific data for AI fall into four groups, and only one takes records from the companies and labs that hold them. This is what each says on its own page.

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Those that take data from labs and companies

Nyne says it partners with companies to license their data, and Troveo that it anonymises a company's data to a documented standard and licenses it on terms the company approves. Neither singles out lab records, so a lab comes to them as a company with operating data.

Source: Scientific data buyers

Those that license their own corpus, or build one

Springer Nature's ARC3 licensing, Wiley's AI data products and Redpine's licensed peer-reviewed research are published literature, not a lab's notebooks. Lila Sciences says its autonomous labs design and run experiments and learn from the new data, and K-Dense has partnered with Litmus Science for on-demand lab work: both make data rather than buy it. Polaris is where drug-discovery datasets and benchmarks are shared.

Source: Scientific data buyers

AWS Data Exchange and Opendatabay are venues where a holder lists data for buyers to find. If you are selling the whole lab, see selling a research lab.

Tell us about the lab records you hold

8 of the 15 notebook vendors we read leave ownership with the lab. Tell us where your experiments are kept and we will write back about your records.

The research and its notebooks

What kind of research produced most of the records?

  • Every research data enquiry is read by a person
  • No notebook vendor on the board sees what you send
  • No raw data, protocol or notebook export is asked for here

See what your notebook lets you license

8 of the 15 notebook vendors we read leave ownership with the lab. Tell us where your experiments are kept and we will write back about your records.

Sources

This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:

  1. LabArchives, LabArchives-Standard-Terms-and-Conditions.pdf
  2. LabArchives, LabArchives-Enterprise-Terms&Conditions.pdf
  3. LabArchives, LabArchives-Standard-Terms-of-Use.pdf
  4. LabArchives, Privacy Policy - Dotmatics
  5. SciNote, Terms of Service - SciNote
  6. SciNote, Data Protection, Security & IP in SciNote ELN - SciNote
  7. SciNote, What happens to my data if SciNote goes out of business?
  8. Labfolder, Labfolder by SciSure | Terms of Use - Cloud
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