Open Humans
Participate in research. Share your data. Learn more together.
A free program of the nonprofit Open Humans Foundation
Joshua Berk
Health-tracking Enthusiast
"I believe the benefits to research from Open Humans – especially as the data set becomes even larger and more statistically significant – will be enormous."
Liz Salmi
Patient Advocate & Brain Cancer Blogger
"It's a very personal choice to share health information. What is right for me isn't necessarily right for everyone."
James Turner
Citizen Scientist & Project Creator
"Because the researchers and participants have a much more collaborative attitude than the typical research project, you really feel like you’re a part of the science, not just another anonymized identifier in a database."
Contribute to research & citizen science!
Through Open Humans, you can gather valuable data about yourself and find cool projects to share it with.
1. Sign up
2. Connect data
3. Join projects
Your data is more powerful when you're a part of it!
Open Humans is a program of the nonprofit Open Humans Foundation and has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Knight Foundation. Our 2015 launch was written up in Forbes, Newsweek, Scientific American, and more.
You decide when to share. You have valuable data, and you'll decide when to share it. The data you provide will be private by default. You can choose which projects to share with. You can also opt to make some (or all) of your data public, so anyone can access and research it!
Studies, projects, and more. Browse our activities list to see the many potential data sources you can add, and interesting projects you can join.
Be a part of research. We'll recognize your contributions with badges on your profile page, invite you to talk to other community members in our online forums, and periodically post new activities, study updates, and relevant interviews in our newsletters and on our blog.
Are you a researcher or citizen scientist?
We want to help you use our platform! Get started right away with public data available on members' public profiles, and through our Public Data API.
You can also create projects to work directly with members, using APIs and on-site tools! Projects have tons of options: they can invite members to anonymously share data, help members add new data, invite them to surveys, and more. It's free and works immediately!
Got a great idea? Grants of up to $5000 are available for projects that expand the Open Humans ecosystem.
The Harvard PGP seeks to share genomes and associated health data, despite potential for re-identification, to advance research in human health and biology.
Make your data a public resource! If you join our study, you'll be able to turn public sharing on (and off) for individual data sources on your research data page.
23andMe is a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company that tests about one million genetic locations.
Genevieve matches your public genome against public variant data, and invites you to contribute to shared notes.
Circles is a research study that aims to discover the genetic basis for a mysterious and remarkable human trait: the areola.
Fitbit makes activity trackers and health devices like scales for recording health data.
This tool will compare your available genome data and look for disagreement between calls
Is your 23andMe data public? Register interest in a study of how folks interact with their genome data using GenomiX, our visualization tool
RunKeeper is a free smartphone app for GPS fitness-tracking. You can use it to record GPS timepoint data for runs, walks, bicycling, and other exercise.
Keeping Pace seeks to study data about how we move around, to understand how seasons and local environment influence our movement patterns.
Ancestry.com's AncestryDNA is a direct-to-consumer genetic testing product that tests about 700,000 genetic locations.
Install this third-party app on your iPhone or iPad to upload HealthKit data to Open Humans.
Wild Life of Our Homes invited people to help study the bacteria and fungi living in their homes. This study is complete, but former participants can import their data.
American Gut is a crowdfunded study building on the Knight Lab's work with the Human Microbiome Project. Answer survey questions and collect samples at home, and get an analysis of your microbiome.
Your genome app - get your ancestry, microbiome, and more! Contribute your data to OpenHumans.
A tool to easily enable upload of data from individual Nightscout databases to the Open Humans platform
Learn about current science of the gut microbiome with expert-curated learning materials.
Do you a have a data type that we don't yet support? Upload any files you want to your Data Selfie. Lab results, instrument data, and medical imaging are examples of data you might want to share.
Withings makes consumer electronics devices for tracking health and fitness like a scale and a blood pressure monitor. Withings also makes an app called HealthMate which users can enter their health measurements in.
Moves is an always-on steps and location logging app for iPhone and Android. It classifies activities as walking, cycling, running, transit, and many other types.
Pokemon Go: A Socio-Technical Study
Do you have genome or exome data? You can upload genome, exome, and genotyping data in VCF format.
The OpenAPS Data Commons collects data from DIY closed loopers and facilitates research in partnership with the DIY closed loop community.
uBiome is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco that gives individuals and organizations access to sequencing technology to sequence their microbiomes with a sampling kit and website.
GoViral aims to map the spread of viruses in your community with kits and surveys.
Jawbone makes activity trackers and health devices like scales for recording health data.
The Nightscout Data Commons collects data from Nightscout users and facilitates research in partnership with the DIY diabetes community.
The mPower study uses an iPhone app to investigate, track, and understand the symptoms of Parkinson's disease.
