FGED Society

FGED Society

The Functional GEnomics Data (FGED) Society (formerly known as the MGED Society) is a non-profit, volunteer-run international organization of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to facilitate biological and biomedical discovery through data integration. The approach of FGED is to promote the sharing of basic research data generated primarily via high-throughput technologies that generate large data sets within the domain of functional genomics.

Members of the FGED Society work to establish standards for data quality, management, annotation and exchange; facilitate the creation of software tools that leverage these standards; and work with other standards organizations and promoting the sharing of high quality, well annotated data within the life sciences and biomedical communities.

Founded in 1999 as the "Microarray Gene Expression Data (MGED) Society," this organization changed its name to the "Functional Genomics Data Society" in 2010 to reflect the fact that it has broadened its focus beyond the application of DNA microarrays for gene expression analysis to include technologies such as high-throughput sequencing. The scope of the FGED Society includes data generated using any functional genomics technology when applied to genome-scale studies of gene expression, binding, modification and other related applications.