Welcome to the Swiss node of the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (Federated EGA or FEGA), part of the EGA ELIXIR core data resource.
The vision of the FEGA network is to become “the primary global resource for discovery and access of sensitive human omics and associated data consented for secondary use, through a network of national human data repositories to accelerate disease research and improve human health”.
Swiss FEGA provides a secure environment to archive genomic and other human data generated by researchers in Switzerland, compliant with Swiss legal protections. For researchers, it should simplify archiving such data in order to support reproducibility of research and enable data reuse.
Mark Ibberson, Director Vital-IT Computational Biology group at SIB, who is leading the Swiss FEGA node, says "Today, researchers working on human genomic data face several roadblocks: where to deposit their data securely, or how to access and analyze genomics data from multiple studies for instance. This is why a secure Swiss federated genomics service is crucial to boost genomic research".
The Swiss FEGA service went live in October 2026, with the Swiss FEGA Portal giving access to the Submission Portal (data and metadata upload) and to the Catalogue (search for studies and datasets deposited on the Swiss FEGA node).
More information is available on our Submission webpage, Access webpage and on the User Manual of the Swiss FEGA Portal.
Contact the Swiss FEGA Helpdesk at support@fega.swiss if you have any questions or need support to submit your data.