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.