The platform SourceData, an initiative by EMBO, is based on annotation of the figures in papers in a way thatbis machine readable and therefore searchable. SourceData is an openly accessible and easily applicable data discovery tool allowing biomedical scientists to share figures and the underlying source data in a way that is machine-readable. SourceData provides a novel platform for researchers who wish to make their publications discoverable based on their data content, to find specific data, to test or generate new hypotheses, and to share and connect data. (See Nature Methods 14:1017, 2017; Liechti et al., Nat Meth 14:1021, 2017). Registration not required.