FEGA Portugal is an archive for storing and sharing all kinds of data resulting from biomedical research projects. As a national node of the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA), we enable researchers to store their data in Portugal in a way that meets the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Any data submitted to the archive is subject to controlled access, which means that access to the data only will be granted after a formal application procedure.

Our Mission

We enable sharing of personally identifiable data resulting from Portuguese biomedical research projects.

An increasing amount of human related data is generated in Portuguese biomedical research projects. FEGA Portugal is a national resource for archiving, accessing and sharing these data, which previously has been missing in Portugal. FEGA Portugal employs the FAIR data principles, thereby making the data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

The organisations behind FEGA Portugal

FEGA Portugal is hosted in Técnico Lisboa (IST), which legally is part of Lisbon University. IST is an associate BioData.pt – the Portuguese distributed infrastructure for biological data and the Portuguese node of ELIXIR. BioData.pt is the legal representative of FEGA Portugal.

Partners and initiatives

European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
Federated EGA
ELIXIR-CONVERGE – EU project to help standardise life science data management across Europe

Our Team

Ana Teresa Freitas, ELIXIR Portugal Head-of-Node, FEGA Strategic Committee

Mário Silva, FEGA Strategic Committee

Jorge Oliveira, FEGA Operations Committee

Jorge Silva, FEGA Operations Committee

Miguel Santos, FEGA Portugal Developer