What is a Project?

A project groups samples and associates them with a method that describes an ordered sequence of protocols. Simply put, a project specifies a group of samples , what actions should be done to those samples and in what order those actions should take place. For example, a sequencing project could specify the order of protocols that would be applied to a sample of blood to produce a genetic sequence.

Projects come in all types and sizes. One project might contain 5 samples, another 5000. One project might take a month to complete, another may be ongoing. There can be projects within projects linked by a master project. These subprojects, however, can all be unique and have different sequences of protocols, assigned users, and different groups of samples.