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I'm currently solving this problem:

The Darwin Tree of Life project will create more DNA genome resources than any other project. I’m trying to make the huge amounts of information easily searchable.

For example, people might want to look for information on the DNA of the species Felis catus (the domestic cat), or they might want to search for all the different species of cats in the genus Felis (domestic cat, wild cat, jungle cat, etc.), or even the bigger group Carnivora (i.e. all carnivores, including cats, lions, wolves, otters, bears, meerkats, etc).

The search tools I am making will allow people to search for all kinds of information at any level. These tools will allow us to understand which bits of DNA are the same in different species and therefore likely do the same things, and which bits are different and likely to be responsible for the differences between species. This way of looking at DNA data is also known as comparative genomics.