Pre-submission checklist

If you wish to submit your data to FEGA Sweden, there are several things you can prepare before you start with the actual submission. Use the checklist below to ensure that you have everything you need to succeed with your submission. If you have any questions, please write to the FEGA Sweden Helpdesk.

• Consider which data you would like to share via FEGA Sweden. The submission process will be less complicated if you know which files to include in your submission.
• Determine if FEGA Sweden is the right archive for your data.
• Find out what is needed in order to comply with GDPR.
• Make sure that your ethical approval allows the data to be shared via FEGA Sweden.
• Prepare your data files so that they are ready to be submitted.
• Consider if your files should be submitted as one or multiple datasets.
• Collect and prepare the metadata, including the data access policy.
• Identify and contact the people that you would like to include in the Data Access Committee (DAC).

Need more guidance?

EMBL-EBI offers excellent training material around ethical, legal and societal implications (ELSI) of biomedical data sharing. We advise you to take a look at their online tutorial before submitting data to us.