The Swiss FEGA node is a consortium between multiple leading organisations in the Swiss research landscape, supported by the Swiss Confederation through seed funding by the Swiss Personalized Health Network.
We come together to participate in the FEGA network, and provide a safe location for Swiss research data.
The leading house for the Swiss FEGA node is SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - which is a national non-profit organisation dedicated to biological and biomedical data science, and the Swiss ELIXIR node.
SIB is the organisation which will join the FEGA network, and represents a larger consortium which will contribute to the node. The current partners and their role are the following:
- ETH NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies will collect and provide feedback on usability and user experience of data submitters and requesters.
- ETH Scientific IT Services will deploy the FEGA software and act as the service provider.
- Health 2030 Genome Center will provide expert scientific support and community engagement.
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics will manage agreements with users and the FEGA network as well as provide project management and legal support, acting as the service owner.
- Swiss Data Science Center will provide key tools for managing access to data.
- Switch will provide a secure cloud environment as the infrastructure provider.
The Swiss FEGA project is being coordinated by Mark Ibberson, Clara Roujeau and Owen Appleton at SIB, you can contact them here.