The European Genome-Phenome Archive stores data from 100,000 people from 200 centres and research groups around the world, and is an essential resource for the advancement of personalized medicine.

These data occupy a total of 1,000,000 gigabytes and will be stored in the facilities of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and analyzed with the MareNostrum supercomputer.

The "la Caixa" Foundation, the Government of Catalonia and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness are promoting this co-management initiative between the European Bioinformatics Institute (part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL-EBI) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), reinforcing Spanish research institutions' European leadership in genome analysis.

The EGA is the way to ensure that genome and phenome data, which are very expensive to obtain, are made available to the global scientific community, so that research studies can be accelerated, and bring about new discoveries. The EGA is also the European response to the challenges arising from the need to protect the privacy of human donors who have participated in genomic studies.