The Legume Federation is an NSF project to build a federation of legume databases through data standards, distributed development and comparative analysis, to support research across the legume family, and to support robust agriculture for a world that is significantly "legume-fed".

The goals of the Legume Federation include:

1. share knowledge, development efforts, and data sets across all legume crops;
2. define standards for data formats, metadata, Web service protocols and ontology use;
3. establish an open repository for data exchange;
4. encourage the use of common, open source model organism database tools.