GISAID alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of GISAID, shown against it.

GISAID HealthMap WastewaterSCAN Epi Info
Vendor GISAID Boston Children's Hospital Stanford University and Emory University (WastewaterSCAN) U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Pricing model Free Free Free Free
Free tier Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No No
Best for Public health agencies and researchers needing near-real-time, attributed access to circulating pathogen genomic sequences. Public health agencies and travelers wanting free, early, text-based situational awareness of emerging outbreaks. Health officials, researchers, and journalists wanting free, public, multi-pathogen wastewater trend data. Health departments and field epidemiologists needing free outbreak data collection and statistics without a commercial license.
Pricing

Free access after identity verification and agreement to GISAID's Database Access Agreement; it is an access-controlled data-sharing initiative, not a paid product.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Freely accessible website and mobile app; not a paid product.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Dashboard and published sewershed data are free and public; the program is philanthropically funded rather than sold commercially.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free public-domain software published directly by the CDC; no license fee or paid tier.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • Global genomic sequence and metadata database
  • Coverage of influenza, SARS-CoV-2, RSV, mpox, and arboviruses
  • Credentialed, identity-verified access model
  • Data-sharing etiquette with lab attribution requirements
  • No storage of restricted sequences
  • Rapid-sharing design for outbreak response
  • Free registration for individual researchers
  • Automated NLP mining of online news and reports
  • Real-time outbreak map visualization
  • Coverage across nine languages
  • Informal-source (eyewitness/social) signal detection
  • 'Outbreaks Near Me' consumer mobile app
  • Multi-disease, global outbreak tracking
  • Free public access
  • Public sewershed-level data dashboard
  • Monitoring of roughly a dozen pathogens beyond SARS-CoV-2
  • Influenza, RSV, mpox, and norovirus tracking
  • Nationwide U.S. sampling network
  • Academic research partnership (Stanford, Emory)
  • Lab processing via Verily Life Sciences
  • Freely published trend and level data
  • Custom questionnaire and data-entry form builder
  • Outbreak line-listing and case management
  • Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis
  • Epidemiologic measures (odds ratios, attack rates)
  • Windows desktop, mobile, and web/cloud versions
  • Data visualization and mapping
  • No-cost distribution with no license required

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