Explore and Collaborate
SPSP serves two main objectives: surveillance and research.
SURVEILLANCE: serve as a shared surveillance platform between human and veterinary medicine, including environmental and food isolates, thereby enabling detailed transmission and outbreak surveillance of pathogens in near real-time, with actionable results for public health. May require access to personal data, as regulated by the Federal Law and Ordinance on Epidemics (LEp).
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- SPSP Private Portal: Users from SPSP registered groups/partners can access and browse all the non-sensitive data on SPSP, as soon as it is submitted by any group/partner. The portal notably allows users to save smart queries that are automatically updated when new data arrives, and to visualize data (see the Private Portal documentation).
RESEARCH: serve as a repository of structured, standardized and well-annotated data that can be used to answer specific research questions. May require access to personal data, as regulated by the Human Research Act and Ordinance on Human Research.
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- SPSP Public Portal: As soon as genomic data have been submitted to public international archives (e.g. INSDC), data also becomes available on the SPSP Public Portal for anyone to browse and access the metadata catalogue. This allows researchers to easily find additional sensitive metadata that might be accessible upon request (see the Public Portal documentation). A public API is also available (see the API documentation). Phylogenies are also available for some species, powered by Nextstrain’s Auspice.
Browse public data
The SPSP Public Portal allows researchers to explore the structure and content of datasets that have been published to international archives. In line with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable), the portal displays available data fields without exposing sensitive values, preserving patient privacy. Researchers can identify relevant datasets and request access, subject to ethical approval and data owner consent.
Discover our projects
SPSP aims to serve both surveillance and research. Since its foundation in 2018, it has been actively contributing to the success of numerous projects, among them national surveillance programs and nationwide research projects.
Publications
SPSP Publications highlight our vision for pathogen data sharing at both national and international levels. They reflect SPSP’s broader commitment to FAIR data principles, supporting public health and research through open and responsible data sharing.