Network Data Exchange

The NDEx Project provides an open-source framework where scientists and organizations can share, store, manipulate, and publish biological network knowledge. The NDEx Project maintains a free, public website; alternatively, users can also decide to run their own copies of the NDEx Server software in cases where the stored networks must be kept in a highly secure environment (such as for HIPAA compliance) or where high application load is incompatible with a shared public resource.

NDEx项目提供了一款开源框架，使得科学家及组织能够在其中共享、存储、操作并发布生物网络知识。NDEx项目维护了一个免费、公共的网站；此外，用户还可选择在存储网络需处于高度安全环境（如符合HIPAA规定）或高应用负载与共享公共资源不兼容的情况下，自行运行NDEx服务器软件副本。