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PhysioNet

MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology
open source / Overall score: n/a

PhysioNet is a publishing platform for de-identified biomedical and clinical data, run by the MIT Laboratory for Computational Physiology with NIH funding. Researchers submit databases, software and models that content editors review before publication. Each published version is fixed, most data is open while sensitive clinical records need credentialed access, and files download by versioned path over the web or from S3.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
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.

Adoption

not assessed

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.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

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.

Verified 2026-10-07