The Portuguese Local European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA)

BioData.pt has been participating in EGA related projects since 2018, namely through the ELIXIR Beacon Community, Federated Human Data Community and ELIXIR-CONVERGE WP7. We have been early adopters of Beacon and Federated EGA. All of these projects align with National Initiatives, namely the mirror groups of the Beyond One Million Genomes (B1MG) project and the Portuguese Initiative for Genomic Medicine National strategy, led by the National Institute of Health, with whom we have been collaborating closely, specially in the technical aspects of these projects. Both in ELIXIR and B1MG we participated in pilot maturity/maturation models, aiming to access the level of participating nodes