BioProject Submission

Submission of research data from human subjects: For submitting data from human subjects (human data) to the databases of DDBJ center, it is submitter’s responsibility to ensure that the dignity and right of human subject are protected in accordance with all applicable laws, ordinances, guidelines and policies of submitter’s institution. In principle, make sure to remove any direct personal identifiers of human subjects from your data to be submitted. Before submitting human data, read the “Submission of research data from human subjects”.

Cases requiring project registration

Please check whether a project registration is necessary or not for your data submission in the submission navigation site. Registration for a BioProject accession is not required for small datasets for which the results are found in one (or a small number) of accession numbers such as a single plasmid, viral or organelle genome sequencing study.

Submit a new BioProject submission

Obtain a submission account.

Submit a new project by clicking the [New submission].

If there is no reply from submitters after three months of initial contact, submissions will be cancelled.

To submit a BioProject, enter content from left to right tabs. Submitter information is copied with account information.

For BioProject information fileds, please see BioProject information fields.

To submit genome sequences having functional annotations to DDBJ, locus tag prefix(s) should be registered in BioSample. Since 9th November 2022, the locus tag prefix

Check the content in “OVERVIEW” and submit a project by clicking the [Submit].

Accession number

A BioProject accession number with prefix PRJDB is automatically assigned to the submitted project. When the data release is specified as “Release immediately following curation”, the project will be automatically released at night.

- Do NOT cite numbers with prefix PSUB in publication.
- Do not double submit the projects which have been registered to EBI and NCBI.

Human data

To submit data corresponding to personal identification code to DRA/GEA/DDBJ, your data submission application needs to be approved by NBDC before the submission. If your application was approved, write the NBDC application ID (for example, J-DS000001-001) in “Private comments to DDBJ staff” of BioProject.

Submit an umbrella project

Umbrella project can be submitted as primary project in D-way. Be sure to tell the DDBJ BioProject staff that submitting project is umbrella by writing so in the Private comments to DDBJ staff. Umbrell project cannot be kept private.

When submitting an umbrella project to group pseudohaplotype datasets, enter accession numbers of primary BioProjects to be linked and their names for pseudohaplotypes (e.g. PRJDB1 Principal, PRJDB2 Alternate and PRJDB3 DRA).

Tell DDBJ staff that submitting project is umbrella

Link primary project to umbrella

When submitting project, in the Umbrella BioProject, enter abstract and accession number of an umbrella to be linked. The DDBJ BioProject staff link the submitted primary project to the umbrella based on this information.

Release of projects

Registered projects can be released in the following two ways. Hold date cannot be set for BioProject.

Release immediately after registration.
Release when records citing the BioProject accession are made public.

The projects can be kept private. If DDBJ/DRA/GEA/MetaboBank records citing the BioProject accession are made public, cited projects are automatically released. The BioProject release does not trigger release of private DDBJ/DRA/GEA/MetaboBank data citing the BioProject accession.

Public projects are exchanged among NCBI and EBI BioProject databases.

Update

Registered projects can be updated. Please contact the BioProject staffto update the projects.

Add publication information

Request addition of publication information (pubmed ID, doi when pubmed ID is not available) to BioProject through the Contact form by selecting “BioProject/BioSample/Sequence Read Archive (DRA)” in the Contacts menu.

Link experimental data and project

For the DRA/GEA/MetaboBank submissions, select the BioProject accession that you registered in advance in the Study. For genome and TSA submissions to the DDBJ, enter the BioProject accession in the DBLINK.

Inquiry

If a project has a novel organism name or human data, we may ask you questions after an accession number is automatically assigned.