---
id: "ega_accession"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 78
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ega_accession"
---

# European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) accession (`ega_accession`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Accession of an object in the European Genome-phenome Archive, run by EMBL-EBI and the Centre for Genomic Regulation to archive and share personally identifiable genetic, phenotypic and clinical data from biomedical research. It is EGA, one letter for the kind of object, such as S for a study or D for a dataset, and eleven digits.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^EGA[SCPNRXZDBF][0-9]{11}$
```

## Examples

- `EGAD00001008392` — Dataset "Rare Disease Synthetic Dataset"; Bioregistry example
- `EGAD0000100839` (invalid example) — Ten digits instead of eleven

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `ega`

## Sources

- doc: <https://ega-archive.org/>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/ega>

## Quality

Score 78/100. Missing: second example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ega_accession.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/ega_accession.yaml>