MetaGraph began about a decade ago and has grown into a large, open, multi‑institution effort to make the world's DNA/RNA/protein archives searchable. It was built by many students, engineers, and collaborators and sustained by public funding and in‑kind cloud support (see below).
Funding: We gratefully acknowledge funding from ETH Zurich; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grants 407540_167331 (NRP 75 "Big Data") and 200550; Open Research Data Program of the ETH Board; SNSF R'Equip 213236; ETH Scientific Equipment Program; Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) Transition Postdoc Fellowship #2021/453; SwissAI Initiative via CSCS project a02 on Alps., and a CSCS Production grant ETHZ-CSCS_LP13.
In‑kind & infrastructure support: Google Cloud research credits; AWS Open Data Sponsorship (S3 storage); computations on ETH Zurich’s Leonhard Med secure trusted research environment.