MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology

license

BSD-3-Clause(OSI)

source

public(github.com/MIT-LCP/physionet-build)

core features withheld

no — academic lab platform funded by the NIH

The Django application behind physionet.org is published under a BSD license and can be run locally from its repository. PhysioNet is an MIT research lab's NIH-funded platform, with no paid edition.

• https://physionet.org/about/ recorded 2026-10-07

  "an NIH-funded publishing platform for rigorously curated, de-identified biomedical and clinical data"; "managed by the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology".

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MIT-LCP/physionet-build/HEAD/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07

  BSD three-clause text (redistribution with notice; no endorsement) under a "Copyright (c) Django Software Foundation and individual contributors" line.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MIT-LCP/physionet-build/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

  "The new PhysioNet platform built using Django. The new site is currently hosted at https://physionet.org/".

PhysioNet publishes no platform-wide download or user count. Stars on its platform repository would measure interest in the code rather than use of the data, so no reading was recorded.

• https://physionet.org/about/ recorded 2026-10-07

  "PhysioNet provides access to more than several hundred resources"; no usage figure.

PhysioNet's servers read its waveform records and serve the signals back as JSON, and its API describes every published version with a DOI, license and access policy. Projects can only be submitted through the website, and with no interface for publishing programmatically it sits below Dryad and Zenodo even though it does more with the files than either.

• https://physionet.org/about/publish/ recorded 2026-10-07

  "submit the project to the editorial team for review"; decisions "Accept", "Resubmit" or "Reject"; "When a project is published, its content is fixed and cannot be changed."

• https://physionet.org/api/v1/project/published/ recorded 2026-10-07

  Published-project API: each entry carries "version", "version_doi", "license", "resource_type", "access_policy" and "topics", e.g. slpdb 1.0.0 with version_doi 10.13026/C23K5S.

• https://physionet.org/content/mimic-iv-demo/2.2/ recorded 2026-10-07

  Citation: "MIMIC-IV Clinical Database Demo (version 2.2). PhysioNet." with "doi = {10.13026/dp1f-ex47}" and "note = {Version 2.2}".

• https://physionet.org/content/mitdb/1.0.0/ recorded 2026-10-07

  "wget -r -N -c -np https://physionet.org/files/mitdb/1.0.0/" and "aws s3 sync --no-sign-request s3://physionet-open/mitdb/1.0.0/".

• https://physionet.org/lightwave/server?action=fetch&db=mitdb/1.0.0&record=100&signal=MLII&t0=0&dt=1 recorded 2026-10-07

  LightWAVE "fetch" for signal MLII: "units": "mV", "gain": 200, and a "samp" array of samples.

• https://physionet.org/lightwave/server?action=info&db=mitdb/1.0.0&record=100 recorded 2026-10-07

  LightWAVE "info" for mitdb/1.0.0 record 100: "tfreq": 360, "duration": "30:05.556", signals "MLII" and "V5" with gain, ADC resolution and baseline.