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The database Zanran can be an effective way to search for specific data collections.  Doing a google search for "data sets" or datasets and topic can also be an effective way to search for data, though it might be helpful to limit searches to .edu or .gov domains (site:.gov).

Examples or datasets in the sciences:

Environmental

• USGS Water Quality data
• EPA Data sets

Biological

• Arabidopsis Information Resource
• Entrez Gene (and other NCBI data sets)
• NOAA Biology Data
• Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics - Interesting random collection of data
• Yeast Resource Center Public Data Repository
• Zebrafish Data

Physical Sciences

• PennState Astrostatistics Center
• SIMBAD Astonomical Database
• (Article about Astronomical datasets) Princeton
• USGS Datasets
• See GIS Datasets

Medical

• CDC Disability and Healt Datasets
• Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare
• Clinical Trials Network