A platform for harmonizing and distributing community-curated high-quality metadata of public omics samples and datasets. See our preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07805.

License and Attribution

• Database:
• Software:

The MetaHQ annotation database is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 because it integrates community-curated annotations from multiple sources with NonCommercial restrictions. The command-line tool is licensed under BSD 3-Clause.

For commercial use: Obtain permissions from NC-restricted sources OR use only commercial-compatible annotations. See Terms and Conditions.

Status

Package	Version	Tests
core
cli
build

Setup

1. Install metahq-cli

pip install metahq-cli

2. Download the MetaHQ database and configure the package

metahq setup

Documentation

Visit the MetaHQ documentation page at meta-hq.readthedocs.io/en/latest.

Demo

We provide a demo for the CLI here.

Development

See dev install instructions here.