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
Missing Contact
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.
Ontology
Has Canonical (bioregistry.schema:0000016 )
ena.embl
Metaregistry BioProject

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 5 mappings to external registries for bioproject with 3 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BioContext biocontext BIOPROJECT
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.aqhv1y
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam bioproject
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t bioproject
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100013330
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE bioproject:PRJDB3 is used to demonstrate the provides available for bioproject. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
BioProject bioproject https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/?term=PRJDB3
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/bioproject:PRJDB3
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/bioproject:PRJDB3
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/bioproject:PRJDB3
National Center for Biotechnology Information Registry ncbi https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject?term=PRJDB3
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
ebi BioProject at European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJDB3
ncbi BioProject at NCBI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject?term=PRJDB3