The BioProject database provides an organizational framework to access information about research projects with links to data that have been or will be deposited into archival databases maintained at members of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Consortium.
The BioProject system provides a robust way to access data across multiple resources and multiple submission timepoints, e.g., when there are different types of data that had been submitted to multiple databases, or sequential submissions deposited over the course of a research project. The BioProject database encompasses taxonomic diversity, from humans and animals, to plants, to prokaryotes and metagenomes. BioProjects are created for initiatives that generate a very large volume of data, data from multiple members of a consortium or collaboration, or data being submitted to multiple archival databases.