Researchers may find the following tools useful in their work. Emphasis is given to free (or at least having free components) and online tools or services.
Data De-Identification
- NLM Scrubber - a NLM-Scrubber is a freely available clinical text deidentification tool designed and developed at the National Library of Medicine.The goal of NLM-Scrubber is to produce HIPAA compliant deidentified health information for scientific use.
Electronic Lab Notebooks:
- ELN at Harvard Medical School - The Electronic Lab Notebook Matrix has been created to aid researchers in the process of identifying a usable Electronic Lab Notebook solutions to meet their specific research needs. Through this resource, researchers can compare and contrast the numerous solutions available today, and also explore individual options in-depth.
- RSpace - An ELN for researchers to organize, manage and collaborate on their projects.
- Docollab - Project management system, collaboration.
- Benchling - Life Sciences focused experiment, lab and project management.
Data Analysis/Visualization:
- TableauPublic - Free version of their desktop and online data visualization platform. All data uploaded to TableauPublic is available to everyone on the Internet. The paid versions allow restricted access.
- StatCrunch - Simple online data analysis and survey package.
- Dataviz - Data visualization for time, geographic and comparative data.
- OpenRefine - Data cleaning and exploration tool.
Directories of Research Tools:
