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README:  BioProject (ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/README)
 
Last modified:  May 19, 2011
 
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The BioProject resource (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject) provides an 
organizational framework to access metadata about research projects and the 
data from those projects which is deposited, or planned for deposition, into 
archival databases maintained by members of the INSDC. The resource supports 
a variety of projects in terms of type and complexity, ranging from a focused 
genome sequencing project to a large international collaboration with 
multiple sub-projects such as sequencing, collecting genotype/phenotype data, 
calling sequence variants, or assaying epigenetic information.
 

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core_bioproject.xsd
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XML schema defining BioProject objects. Some term documentation is provided 
in the schema. Additioal information is available in the BioProject help 
documement glossary of terms: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54016/
 
core_bioproject.xml
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Core XML dump of all publically available projects in BioProject database. 
This file is updated daily.
 
summary.txt
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Tab-delimited text file reporting BioProject accession, species, project 
type, and project data type for all publically available projects in 
BioProject database. The format of this table is the same as BioProject Grid 
report at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/browse/
This file is updated daily.