METAGENE-1
7B-parameter metagenomic foundation model pretrained on 1.5T+ base pairs of human-wastewater DNA/RNA for pathogen detection and biosurveillance.
| Category | Microbiome & metagenomics |
|---|---|
| First public | 2025-01-03 (source) |
| Paper | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02045 · arXiv preprint (2025) |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Pricing | Open source |
| Tags | #foundation-model#metagenomics#biosurveillance |
| Last checked | 2026-10-16 |
Specs
| Input | Short metagenomic reads |
|---|---|
| Task | Pathogen detection, sequence embedding |
| Reference database | — |
| Interface | — |
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