scientific
METAGENE-1
Metagenomic foundation model trained on over 1.5T base pairs of DNA and RNA sequenced from wastewater, for pandemic monitoring. Paper by Liu et al. (2025).
Levelmodel
Classscientific
Parameters7B
Contextnot in the notes
Released3 Jan 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
R&D Topics
Identity
- Developer
- University of Southern California, Prime Intellect
- Family
- not in the notes
- Released
- 3 Jan 2025 sourcesannouncement page
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- autoregressive 7B autoregressive transformer on metagenomic sequences
- Total parameters
- 7B sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- molecule
- Output
- molecule
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0 sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
ModelMETAGENE-1University of Southern California, scientific
METAGENE-1University of Southern California, scientificR&D TopicsGenomic DNA Language Models
Use CasesGenomicsHealthcareUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs Itnone recordedDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
Organisations 2
Sources
- arxiv.org/abs/2501.02045 https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02045
- huggingface.co/metagene-ai/METAGENE-1 https://huggingface.co/metagene-ai/METAGENE-1
- kaggle.com/models/metagene/metagene-1 https://www.kaggle.com/models/metagene/metagene-1
- arxiv.org/html/2501.02045 https://arxiv.org/html/2501.02045
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "METAGENE-1", https://aurion.semai.id/models/metagene-1/, records of October 2026.