PORBIOTA as a Portuguese Research Infrastructure (RI) distributed, is responsible for data storage and organization, providing open access platforms on biodiversity in the following areas:

 Species occurrence - promoting access and scientific use of primary biodiversity data

 Environmental genetics and Metagenomics - construction and provision of a reference collection of DNA sequences barcoding

 Ecosystem Monitoring - long-term ecological research and monitoring

 Atmosphere-Biosphere Interfaces - monitoring carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

 Natural science collections - digital unification of Portuguese natural science collections

The distributed and evolutionary development of the e-Infrastructure PORBIOTA will facilitate its replication in other locations, with a major boost for science and technology, namely for the domain of natural sciences.