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COVID data portals

The Federated EGA is an infrastructure built upon the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA), an EMBL-EBI and CRG data resource for secure archiving and sharing of human sensitive biomolecular and phenotypic data resulting from biomedical research projects. With technical tools for the deployment of nationally located secure database nodes and appropriate protocols to connect nodes across the federation for search and access requests, the system supports national data management requirements for genomic and clinical data collected from citizens as part of healthcare or biomedical research projects. Under the European COVID-19 Data Platform, the Federated EGA is being built out rapidly to support COVID-19 host biomolecular studies across Europe. 

Federated EGA includes a secure authorised access mechanism to support research use of these datasets across Europe where the ultimate outcome is a coordinated and harmonised collection of national COVID-19 host datasets for research purposes. Access to the datasets is provided to authorised researchers using Data Access Committee-centred processes and secure protocols already deployed for the EGA service and implemented nationally as part of the federated EGA model. The operational processes of Federated EGA assist the national nodes in rapidly and securely sharing their human host COVID-19 data.

Federated EGA data are jointly presented through metadata discovery services. Further, access is provided to authorized researchers using secure protocols already deployed for the EGA service and now implemented nationally as part of the federated EGA model. The Platform accelerates the deployment of national nodes into the EGA federation to become compliant with all the relevant operational processes for human host COVID- 19 data sharing much sooner than otherwise would be expected.

To enquire on how to collaborate on the European COVID-19 platform: ecovid19@ebi.ac.uk.

To share your data on COVID-19 Data Portal: virus-dataflow@ebi.ac.uk.

See website Federated EGA : COVID-19 Data Portal

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