Contribute

How to add your data to the portal

Option A: Submit via Pull Request

Download the species submission form and the data tracks form and fill them in.

Fork the repository and follow our guide to generate your species pages.

Open a Pull Request for the Genome Portal team to review.

Option B: Submit via email

Download the species submission form and the data tracks form and fill them in.

Email the completed forms to srgp@scilifelab.se.

Our developers and data stewards will set up your data in the portal for you.

Questions at any stage? Email us any time at srgp@scilifelab.se.

Enjoy!

Are you a researcher affiliated with a Swedish institution who has genome data that you would like to see displayed on the Swedish Reference Genome Portal? Great! On this page, we have collected requirements and recommendations for researchers that want to add their data to the portal, as well as instructions on how to submit it. If you have any questions or need support, feel free to email us at srgp@scilifelab.se. We would be happy to hear about your data and discuss how we can accommodate it.

Scope

The Swedish Reference Genome Portal is a free national data service for aggregating, discovering, and visualising non-human eukaryotic genome assemblies and genome annotations (co-)produced by researchers with affiliation to a Swedish institution.

We especially encourage researchers to display data types that might otherwise not be shared via the main nucleotide repositories, such as annotations of genomic features other than protein-coding genes (e.g., repeats, conservation scores, transcripts, CpG islands, genetic variants, genetic diversity). For more details about the aims of the portal, please see About page.

Requirements

For a species dataset to be included in the portal, it needs to fulfil the following requirements:

The genome assembly or genome annotation data is (co-)produced by researchers with affiliation to a Swedish institution. Note that the species itself does not need to occur naturally in Sweden.
The portal is for non-human eukaryotic species.
The species has a genome assembly in FASTA file format and an annotation of the protein-coding genes, preferably in GFF format.
The data is available in public repositories. Example repositories include the European Nucleotide Archive - ENA, National Center of Biotechnology Information - NCBI, SciLifeLab Data Repository, Zenodo, among others.

We can also accept data under embargo that is expected to become available after the manuscript is accepted for publication. The data should be deposited in a public repository and have a reserved DOI and/or accession number. This allows you to indicate in the Data Availability Statement of your manuscript that your data can be visualised on the Swedish Reference Genome Portal (see Section 1.3 on the Cite us page for an example). The corresponding pages on the portal will be made public when the manuscript is accepted and the data has been made public.

Planning is key! Reach out to us via email at as soon as you wish to start this process.

Please note that these requirements may be subject to change at any time and without notice, so we recommend checking them regularly.

Supported file formats and recommendations for making data public

The portal staff can help you reserve an entry on the portal already during the manuscript writing stage and provide a reference to the entry that can be used in the Data Availability statement of the manuscript. If you desire, we will wait to activate the entry until the manuscript is accepted for publication and the data has been made public.

The portal displays various data types commonly used in genomics studies. The links below provide information on supported data file formats and recommendations for sharing genomic data via public repositories. Following these guidelines will help ensure data compatibility for display on the portal.

Page last updated: 31 August 2026