BioProject provides an organizational framework to access metadata about research projects and the data from the projects that are deposited into different databases. It provides information about a project’s scope, material, objectives, funding source and general relevance categories.

Prefix

bioproject

Keywords

life science

Links

Homepage

Contact

Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi   0000-0002-0289-7101

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in BioProject should match this regular expression:
^PRJ[DEN][A-Z]\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

PRJDB3   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from BioProject should match this regular expression:
^bioproject:PRJ[DEN][A-Z]\d+$

Example CURIE

bioproject:PRJDB3

Publications

2011 BioProject and BioSample databases at NCBI: facilitating capture and organization of metadata

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PRJDB3 is used to demonstrate the providers available for BioProject. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.