The datasets are curated by GigaDB biocurators who are employed by BGI and China National GeneBank.

In its inception, GigaDB was designed as the supporting archive for large-scale research data submitted to the GigaScience Press data journals GigaScience and Gigabyte whose focus are on ensuring reproducibility and reusability of biological and biomedical research.

The scope of GigaDB has broadened to include computational research objects such as synthetic data, software and workflows.

[3] Datasets hosted in GigaDB are defined as a group of files and metadata that support a specific article or study.

For each published GigaDB dataset, a DataCite digital object identifier is assigned and the data are indexed and discoverable in NCBI Datamed and the Clarivate Analytics Data Citation Index.