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

ABSTRACT: As the volume and complexity of data sets archived at NCBI grow rapidly, so does the need to gather and organize the associated metadata. Although metadata has been collected for some archival databases, previously, there was no centralized approach at NCBI for collecting this information and using it across databases. The BioProject database was recently established to facilitate organization and classification of project data submitted to NCBI, EBI and DDBJ databases. It captures descriptive information about research projects that result in high volume submissions to archival databases, ties together related data across multiple archives and serves as a central portal by which to inform users of data availability. Concomitantly, the BioSample database is being developed to capture descr

SUBMITTER: Barrett T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3245069 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature