The European Genome-phenome Archive

Abbreviation:EGA

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General Information

The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) allows you to explore datasets from genomic studies, provided by a range of data providers. Access to datasets must be approved by the specified Data Access Committee (DAC).

Homepage https://ega-archive.org/

Countries that developed this resource Spain , United Kingdom

Created in 2007

Taxonomic range

Homo sapiens

Knowledge Domains

Subjects

In the following recommendations:

How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: EGA; The European Genome-phenome Archive; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.mya1ff; Last edited: Jan. 17, 2019, 12:29 p.m.; Last accessed: Oct 17 2019 4:25 p.m.

Publication for citation The European Genome-phenome Archive of human data consented for biomedical research. Lappalainen I,Almeida-King J,Kumanduri V,Senf A,Spalding JD,Ur-Rehman S,Saunders G,Kandasamy J,Caccamo M,Leinonen R,Vaughan B,Laurent T,Rowland F,Marin-Garcia P,Barker J,Jokinen P,Torres AC,de Argila JR,Llobet OM,Medina I,Puy MS,Alberich M,de la Torre S,Navarro A,Paschall J,Flicek P; Nat Genet ; 2015; 10.1038/ng.3312;

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Record updated: Jan. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m. by The FAIRsharing Team.

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			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
			Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)|http://www.mineco.gob.es|Funds
			Comparative Genomics Group (CRG), Spain|http://crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet/02_Research/01_Programmes/01_Bioinformatics_Genomics/04_Comparative_Genomics|Maintains
			ELIXIR-Hub, UK|http://elixir-europe.org/|Maintains
			MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK|http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/|Maintains
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland|https://www.sib.swiss|Maintains
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			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
			Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)|http://www.mineco.gob.es|Funds
			Medical Research Council (MRC), London, UK|http://www.emouseatlas.org/emap/home.html|Funds
			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk/|Funds
			Comparative Genomics Group (CRG), Spain|http://crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet/02_Research/01_Programmes/01_Bioinformatics_Genomics/04_Comparative_Genomics|Maintains
			ELIXIR-Hub, UK|http://elixir-europe.org/|Maintains
			MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK|http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/|Maintains
			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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			European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/|Maintains
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			The European Nucleotide Archive.|Leinonen R., Akhtar R., Birney E., Bower L., Cerdeno-Trraga A., Cheng Y., Cleland I., Faruque N., Goodgame N., Gibson R., Hoad G., Jang M., Pakseresht N., Plaister S., Radhakrishnan R., Reddy K., Sobhany S., Ten Hoopen P., Vaughan R., Zalunin V., Cochrane G., |Nucleic Acids Res.|2011
			The European Genome-phenome Archive of human data consented for biomedical research.|Lappalainen I,Almeida-King J,Kumanduri V,Senf A,Spalding JD,Ur-Rehman S,Saunders G,Kandasamy J,Caccamo M,Leinonen R,Vaughan B,Laurent T,Rowland F,Marin-Garcia P,Barker J,Jokinen P,Torres AC,de Argila JR,Llobet OM,Medina I,Puy MS,Alberich M,de la Torre S,Navarro A,Paschall J,Flicek P|Nat Genet|2015
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			The European Genome-phenome Archive of human data consented for biomedical research.|Lappalainen I,Almeida-King J,Kumanduri V,Senf A,Spalding JD,Ur-Rehman S,Saunders G,Kandasamy J,Caccamo M,Leinonen R,Vaughan B,Laurent T,Rowland F,Marin-Garcia P,Barker J,Jokinen P,Torres AC,de Argila JR,Llobet OM,Medina I,Puy MS,Alberich M,de la Torre S,Navarro A,Paschall J,Flicek P|Nat Genet|2015
			The European Nucleotide Archive.|Leinonen R,Akhtar R,Birney E,Bower L,Cerdeno-Tarraga A,Cheng Y,Cleland I,Faruque N,Goodgame N,Gibson R,Hoad G,Jang M,Pakseresht N,Plaister S,Radhakrishnan R,Reddy K,Sobhany S,Ten Hoopen P,Vaughan R,Zalunin V,Cochrane G|Nucleic Acids Res|2010
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			The European Nucleotide Archive.|Leinonen R,Akhtar R,Birney E,Bower L,Cerdeno-Tarraga A,Cheng Y,Cleland I,Faruque N,Goodgame N,Gibson R,Hoad G,Jang M,Pakseresht N,Plaister S,Radhakrishnan R,Reddy K,Sobhany S,Ten Hoopen P,Vaughan R,Zalunin V,Cochrane G|Nucleic Acids Res|2010
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			The European Nucleotide Archive.|Leinonen R., Akhtar R., Birney E., Bower L., Cerdeno-Trraga A., Cheng Y., Cleland I., Faruque N., Goodgame N., Gibson R., Hoad G., Jang M., Pakseresht N., Plaister S., Radhakrishnan R., Reddy K., Sobhany S., Ten Hoopen P., Vaughan R., Zalunin V., Cochrane G., |Nucleic Acids Res.|2011

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			Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain|http://www.idi.mineco.gob.es/portal/site/MICINN/menuitem.7eeac5cd345b4f34f09dfd1001432ea0/,vgnextoid=cba733a6368c2310VgnVCM1000001d04140aRCRD|Funds
			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinform??tica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
			Spanish Ministerio de Econom??a y Competitividad (MINECO)|http://www.mineco.gob.es|Funds
			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk|Funds
			Medical Research Council|http://www.mrc.ac.uk/|Funds
			Comparative Genomics Group (CRG), Spain|http://crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet/02_Research/01_Programmes/01_Bioinformatics_Genomics/04_Comparative_Genomics|Maintains
			ELIXIR, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom|http://elixir-europe.org/|Maintains
			MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, United Kingdom|http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/|Maintains
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland|https://www.sib.swiss|Maintains
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			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
			Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)|http://www.mineco.gob.es|Funds
			The Wellcome Trust, UK|https://wellcome.ac.uk|Funds
			Medical Research Council|http://www.mrc.ac.uk/|Funds
			Comparative Genomics Group (CRG), Spain|http://crg.es/portal/page/portal/Internet/02_Research/01_Programmes/01_Bioinformatics_Genomics/04_Comparative_Genomics|Maintains
			ELIXIR, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom|http://elixir-europe.org/|Maintains
			MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, United Kingdom|http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/|Maintains
			Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland|https://www.sib.swiss|Maintains
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			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
			Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO)|http://www.mineco.gob.es|Funds
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			Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinform??tica|http://www.inab.org|Funds
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Support

General

FAQ	Submission FAQ
FAQ	Access FAQ
blog	EGA Blog
online documentation	About EGA
twitter	@EGAarchive

Additional Information

Contact	EGA Helpdesk
Identifiers.org	MIR:00000512

TeSS training resources

EGA: Quick tour

Tools

EgaCryptor	https://ega-archive.org/submission/tools/egacryptor
EGA Webin	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/submit/sra/#ega
Aspera FTP for Upload	https://ega-archive.org/submission/tools/ftp-aspera
Secure EGA Download Client	https://ega-archive.org/download/secure_ega_download_client

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

EGA Legal Notice and Terms of Data Use

Data Curation

Submission

https://ega-archive.org/submission

Data Access

DAC Browser	https://ega-archive.org/dacs
Browse	https://ega-archive.org/studies
Browse Datasets	https://ega-archive.org/datasets
Data Access Process	https://ega-archive.org/access/data-access

REST Web Services

REST Submission	https://ega-archive.org/submission/sequence/programmatic_submissions
REST API	https://ega-archive.org/submission/programmatic-submissions

Publications

The European Genome-phenome Archive of human data consented for biomedical research.

Lappalainen I,Almeida-King J,Kumanduri V,Senf A,Spalding JD,Ur-Rehman S,Saunders G,Kandasamy J,Caccamo M,Leinonen R,Vaughan B,Laurent T,Rowland F,Marin-Garcia P,Barker J,Jokinen P,Torres AC,de Argila JR,Llobet OM,Medina I,Puy MS,Alberich M,de la Torre S,Navarro A,Paschall J,Flicek P
Nat Genet 2015

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The European Nucleotide Archive.

Leinonen R,Akhtar R,Birney E,Bower L,Cerdeno-Tarraga A,Cheng Y,Cleland I,Faruque N,Goodgame N,Gibson R,Hoad G,Jang M,Pakseresht N,Plaister S,Radhakrishnan R,Reddy K,Sobhany S,Ten Hoopen P,Vaughan R,Zalunin V,Cochrane G
Nucleic Acids Res 2010

View Paper (PubMed) View Publication

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This record is maintained by garys ORCID and spalding

Funds

Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain (Government body)
Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica (Government body)
Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (Government body)
Medical Research Council (MRC), London, UK (Government body)
The Wellcome Trust, UK (Charitable foundation)

Maintains

Comparative Genomics Group (CRG), Spain (Research institute)
ELIXIR-Hub, UK (Government body)
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, UK (Government body)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK (Research institute)

Grant Number(s)

G0800681 (Medical Research Council (MRC), London, UK)
PT13/0001/0026 (Spanish Instituto de Salud Carlos III Instituto Nacional de Bioinformatica)
SEV-2012-0208 (Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain)
WT 085475/C/08/Z (The Wellcome Trust, UK)

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